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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. My name is Rick Burgess,

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Speaker 1: and we are so grateful that you are either here

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Speaker 1: timing is great if you're brand new, because we're starting

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Speaker 1: a new series today and it will be in the

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Speaker 1: Book of Job. So if you want to go ahead

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Speaker 1: not going to go far today because there's so much

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Speaker 1: to unpack in the first twelve verses, so we'll be

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Speaker 1: one through twelve today. This will be a very interesting

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Speaker 1: study completely because there's so much to cover. But I

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Speaker 1: mean some of the most talked about parts of Job

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Speaker 1: in our brand new series on the Book of Job. Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for today. Lord. This is this is some

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Speaker 1: of the most talked about parts of your scripture. Whenever

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Speaker 1: people are talking sooner or later, if you bring up

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Speaker 1: the Book of Job, that always have very very deep questions. Today, Lord,

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Speaker 1: may you give us the power of the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 1: to discern this correctly and also take away everything that

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Speaker 1: So help us Lord, as we walk through this powerful

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Speaker 1: book in your name, we pray Amen. So who is Job?

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Speaker 1: That's a good question there No one really knows. There's

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Speaker 1: that it's unlikely that Job himself wrote that. And the

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Speaker 1: So someone else would have had to have it revealed.

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Speaker 1: The main part of what we're going to talk about today,

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Speaker 1: But so some people think probably the best candidate is

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Speaker 1: So let's go to chapter one, verse one, and we

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Speaker 1: In this man Job, it says there was a man

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Speaker 1: It does not mean sinless, Okay, so don't think that

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Speaker 1: Upright means that he acknowledged God and everything he did.

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Speaker 1: will start out and I will say, Lord, here is

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Speaker 1: my wife, and I figuratively lay her at the feet

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Speaker 1: of the One and only Living God, and that I

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Speaker 1: will pray for the thing that I am praying for

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Speaker 1: for my wife. And then I reach and I grab

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Speaker 1: my daughter, and I take the oldest child of mine,

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Speaker 1: and I will put her at the figuratively at the

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Speaker 1: feet of the One and only Living God, and I

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Speaker 1: will pray the prayers for her. And then I will

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Speaker 1: take my oldest son and I will place him figuratively

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Speaker 1: at the feet of the One and only Living God,

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Speaker 1: and I will pray for the things that are going

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Speaker 1: on in his life. And now that he's married, his wife,

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Speaker 1: and I will pray those things. Then I'll go to

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Speaker 1: the next son, and I will lay him figuratively at

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Speaker 1: the feet of the one and only Living God, and

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Speaker 1: I will pray for him and the things that he needs.

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Speaker 1: And then I'll take the next son, and I will

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Speaker 1: lay him figuratively at the feet of the one and

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Speaker 1: only Living God. He too is married now, and I

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Speaker 1: will pray for he and his wife, and I'll pray

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Speaker 1: about the things of his wife. None of them have

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Speaker 1: children yet, but when they do, I'll take my grandchildren

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Speaker 1: and do the same thing. And then I will be

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Speaker 1: reminded of the son that is already with his perfect father,

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Speaker 1: and I will pray and remind I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Bronner can see. I don't know what Bronner is allowed

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Speaker 1: to do. Let him know that we love him, let

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Speaker 1: him know that we'll be there soon. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: taking care of him, and thank for everything that you've done.

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Speaker 1: And then I get into my mama, and then I

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Speaker 1: get into whoever else is on the list. So that's

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Speaker 1: how there's a lot of things that change in my

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Speaker 1: prayer life that doesn't That's something I do continually because

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Speaker 1: and that's what job did. He did it continually, and

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Speaker 1: so I would just push that to you is and

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Speaker 1: I have seen God move specifically in each life like

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Speaker 1: that specifically what was prayed. It's incredible to watch. But

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Speaker 1: you also got to get to the point where I

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Speaker 1: think it'll bring you peace. It's just trust God. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: I think we get frantic about our children and frantic

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Speaker 1: about our families. It's all right to care, but don't

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Speaker 1: be anxious about it when I walk away. He's got

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Speaker 1: different timelines. Things don't always have and the way I

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Speaker 1: want them to happen in the timeline I want. But

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Speaker 1: I will tell you this, I trust him. I trust

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Speaker 1: God with my wife. I trust God with my children.

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Speaker 1: I trust God with my friends. I trust him with

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Speaker 1: my mama who's still with us. I trust him and

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Speaker 1: UH and so and that I hope will bring you peace.

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Speaker 1: So now here we go. We jump in six through TENU,

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Speaker 1: and boy, this is going to be This is probably

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Speaker 1: some of the most talked about scripture in all the Bible.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's talked about a lot because if

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Speaker 1: we were honest, we don't like it. We don't we

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Speaker 1: don't want to do. We just want to think somehow

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Speaker 1: I've got this wrong. Somehow, this was written incorrectly. This

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Speaker 1: can't be true. But I would I would challenge you

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Speaker 1: today not to be bothered by it, but to actually

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Speaker 1: find a way for this to bring you peace, because

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Speaker 1: the peace you need is that God is completely in control.

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Speaker 1: He is, He is completely in troll of this, in

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Speaker 1: control of this. So here we go. There was a

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Speaker 1: day verse six, when the sons of God, that's angels,

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Speaker 1: came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan. Lucifer

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Speaker 1: also came among them. And the Lord said to Satan,

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Speaker 1: from where have you come? And Satan gave an answer.

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Speaker 1: Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to and

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Speaker 1: fro on the earth, and from walking up and down

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Speaker 1: on it. That's what I've been doing, all right. So

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Speaker 1: first of all we see that the sons of God,

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Speaker 1: these are the angels. We don't know their number, we

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Speaker 1: know it's a lot. These these messengers, these archangels, they

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Speaker 1: all at some point, when God declares, they all come

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Speaker 1: before him to give an account, to have a Q

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Speaker 1: and A with God. And it says that apparently, even

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Speaker 1: though he's now been cast from heaven already, Lucifer, he

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Speaker 1: still has act says to come before God. Now we

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Speaker 1: know in the revelation there comes a time when God

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Speaker 1: stops this access, but until then he does. Now he's

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Speaker 1: called Satan here, which means accuser. Remember God didn't create

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Speaker 1: the devil. God did not create Satan. He created Lucifer,

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Speaker 1: his most powerful angel, and then Lucifer tried the big overthrow,

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Speaker 1: and because of the trying of the overthrow, he now

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Speaker 1: became Satan and the devil, and the Satan part of

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Speaker 1: the name of Lucifer now means the accuser, and he

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Speaker 1: accuses everybody in this room and everybody out there, okay.

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Speaker 1: And then the devil means he's our adversary. Okay, he's

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Speaker 1: our enemy. But it's Lucifer's who this is, and that's

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Speaker 1: who God created. And we know a third of the

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Speaker 1: sons of God, the third of the angels, went with

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Speaker 1: Lucifer with the attempted overthrow, and now they're doomed with him. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So but remember two thirds stayed with God and we

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Speaker 1: got them out numbered. Okay. But but but again they're

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Speaker 1: not to be taken lightly, as we know. So what

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Speaker 1: exactly is going on here? So God also is doing

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Speaker 1: a conversation, has a conversation with Satan. It's almost like

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Speaker 1: he's making small talk. Does anybody think that God didn't

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Speaker 1: know where Satan's being or what he's been doing. It's

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Speaker 1: almost like he's just getting the conversation started. Now, what

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Speaker 1: do we hear Satan say? Exactly what Peter said about it.

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Speaker 1: He said, you you better be self controlled and alert

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Speaker 1: because you're enemy. The devil prowls around like a roaring

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Speaker 1: lion looking for someone to devour. Satan might as well

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Speaker 1: said that I've been prowling around to and fro looking

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Speaker 1: for people to devour. That's what I've been doing so

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Speaker 1: and you need to understand that because there's nothing that

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Speaker 1: pleases the adversary more. And his third of demons is

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Speaker 1: to watch human beings turn against God. He's always wanted

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Speaker 1: our worship and he'll do whatever he has to do

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Speaker 1: to get it. And you better look into your life,

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Speaker 1: and I better look into my life and be real

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Speaker 1: careful of letting anything creep in that leads to worship

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Speaker 1: of him. It does matter what you do. Would you

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Speaker 1: like the new numbers? We got new numbers on the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Mystery? It doesn't matter what I listen to

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Speaker 1: or what I watch, I'm good. I don't have to

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Speaker 1: worry about Satan. I don't have to worry about his demons. Hey,

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00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: that stuff don't bother me. Did you see the new

549
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Speaker 1: numbers for a thirty second commercial on the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: Eight million dollars? You really think these companies pay eight

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Speaker 1: million dollars for thirty seconds of our time? Do you

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Speaker 1: think they believe we're not influenced by what we see

553
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Speaker 1: in here? They bet eight million dollars we are a pop.

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Speaker 1: Some of them run more than one. You better watch

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Speaker 1: what you listen to and what you watch, because Satan's

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Speaker 1: told you over and over again in the Bible, just

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Speaker 1: like he's told me, I'm going to and fro. I'm

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00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: walking around, I'm prowling, and I'm looking for somebody to devour.

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Speaker 1: You better be self controlled and alert that you don't say,

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Speaker 1: come on in here, you're welcome, Be real careful. So

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Speaker 1: he asked him where he's coming from, and he starts

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Speaker 1: that conversation and he's, you know what he says, nowhere

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Speaker 1: in particular, just kind of doing a thing, just kind

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Speaker 1: of checking what's going on. He doesn't really give God

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Speaker 1: a lot of details, does he? Just in general I've

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Speaker 1: just kind of been hanging out. Okay, So let's get

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Speaker 1: to let's get to verse eight. And the Lord said

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Speaker 1: to Satan, all right, let's get your pen. Let's underline that,

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Speaker 1: because for us to understand suffering, we got we got

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Speaker 1: to get that right. Okay, So does Satan bring job up?

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Speaker 1: Never does? Who brings Satan's attention to job? The Lord?

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Speaker 1: You okay with that? Are you okay with the fact

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Speaker 1: that your name could be in the place of job? Hey, hey, Lucifer,

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Speaker 1: check out birds down there? Will you think about him?

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Speaker 1: But I don't think much about him? Why don't we

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Speaker 1: think about him today? What do you think about him?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I see some good, some bad,

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Speaker 1: some ugly. Do you think he's doing pretty good right now? Well?

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Speaker 1: I guess so. I mean you're blessing him? No one,

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Speaker 1: he's doing good. Won't you go down there in rock

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Speaker 1: his world? See if he'll turn on me? Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we know, first Peter tells us, don't we? First? Peter

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Speaker 1: says in this you rejoice for a little while if necessary.

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Speaker 1: You've been grieved by various trials. Why to test the

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Speaker 1: genuineness of your faith? Who brought the trial on us

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Speaker 1: God did. Have you ever been in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a trial and been able to look up and say,

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Speaker 1: I guess God deems this necessary because do you realize

589
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Speaker 1: right now you're going to see Satan can't do anything

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Speaker 1: to Joe that God doesn't allow. God can't do anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Satan can't do anything to you that God

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Speaker 1: does not allow or to me. The big question is

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Speaker 1: why is He allowing it? What is he trying to

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Speaker 1: teach me? Is it just a test of my faith

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Speaker 1: to see if I'm really who I claim to be?

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Speaker 1: Is an opportunity? As C. S. Lewis said, pain and

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Speaker 1: suffering is God's megaphone for a sleeping world. I have

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Speaker 1: found that when we struggle that people start listening to us.

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Speaker 1: I found they really pay attention to what's going in

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Speaker 1: our life when we struggle. I'm thankful to God for

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Speaker 1: the blessings. I'm so thankful. I would prefer blessing over refinement.

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00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: I would prefer bl blessing over difficulty every single time. However,

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Speaker 1: I have to admit that I can't recall one person

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Speaker 1: that I've ever led to Christ and in redemption that

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Speaker 1: came to Christ because of my blessings. My boy, I've

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Speaker 1: seen a lot of them come to Christ because of

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Speaker 1: my suffering. The numbers not even it's not even close.

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Speaker 1: I've never had people say, well, your business share has

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Speaker 1: been successful in that show you worked on, and see

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Speaker 1: what you doing now. I see you take great vacations,

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Speaker 1: and I see you got nice house, and boy, it's

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Speaker 1: a nice little farm you got there. That makes me

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Speaker 1: want to ask you about Jesus. It never has never.

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. When I buried my

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00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: little boy, that's all they want to talk about. But

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Speaker 1: I had to go to war with my own family

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Speaker 1: and stand on God's standard. People want to talk about

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Speaker 1: a lot. Well, my daddy was going through Alzheimer's and

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Speaker 1: we were walking through all that. People want to talk

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Speaker 1: about that a lot. I wish it wasn't that way.

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Speaker 1: And there's struggles that that. That God has a lot

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Speaker 1: in my life that you don't even know about. But

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Speaker 1: they've all been beneficial and they sure have caused me

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Speaker 1: to lean on Him as opposed to myself. So here

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Speaker 1: we go. So God brings up job and I love

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Speaker 1: that the way God operates here. Have you considered my

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00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: servant job? There's none like him on the earth, a

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00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away

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Speaker 1: from evil. There's that there, there's there, there it is,

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Speaker 1: there's a resume. Again. God agrees with what is being

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Speaker 1: written about Job. He agrees with it completely. Anybody see

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00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: Job doing anything wrong? Now? Sometimes do we do? We

633
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: get punished by God because because of our own stupidity

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00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: and our embracing of sin, that that choice caused us problems. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But in this particular case, you can't say that God

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Speaker 1: is making sure that in his Holy Word. And I

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00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: don't know why we just won't just just push in

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Speaker 1: and say I accept this. There's always that little bit

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00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: of just not We're a little nauseous about it. We're not.

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Speaker 1: We don't really feel good about it. With God said,

641
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Speaker 1: have you noticed Job? And then God says he agrees

642
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: that Job is blameless, he's upright, he fears me, and

643
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: he shuns evil. I agree with that, but I'm still

644
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: gonna seeck you on it. Wow, And by the time

645
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Speaker 1: we get to the end, we'll see that God knows

646
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Speaker 1: what he's doing. Do you trust that? Then Satan answers

647
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: the Lord and says, well, does Job fear God for

648
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: no reason. Now you think, right here, there's gonna be

649
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Speaker 1: a good lesson from Lucifer, But there's not. He's gonna

650
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Speaker 1: be He's gonna be deceptive about this very comment. See

651
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Speaker 1: what you would think is that what he's trying to

652
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Speaker 1: say is he has so much fear of you, that's

653
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Speaker 1: why he acts the way he acts. That's not what

654
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Speaker 1: Satan's gonna say. That actually makes sense. Remember the Bible

655
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Speaker 1: tells us that if we fear God, it shows we

656
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Speaker 1: have wisdom. But Satan's not gonna go down that road.

657
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: He's not saying he fears your authority. He's saying you're

658
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: spoiling him. So that's different. See, you gotta watch Lucifer. Okay,

659
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: he's he can chuck and jive. What we go back

660
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: to the Garden of Eden and what's his play? He

661
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: never said that God didn't say anything. He just want

662
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Speaker 1: to know if they knew what he really said? Did

663
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Speaker 1: he really say that? See, that's what he's gonna do

664
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Speaker 1: to you, and he's gonna do to me. You know

665
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: the scripture is pretty good, don't you. And then he

666
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: quotes a scripture just seeing if you'll pick up that

667
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: he changed it just a little bit. We see that

668
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Speaker 1: happening all the time too. Have you ever seen that

669
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Speaker 1: where people will say something and they're just certain us

670
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Speaker 1: in the Bible and you're like, that's not in the Bible. Right.

671
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: There's so many of those, right. God never gives you

672
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Speaker 1: more youngon handle. I don't know about y'all, but he

673
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Speaker 1: has for me several times. Okay, Now, that's a scripture

674
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Speaker 1: that says we can't make an excuse about temptation. That's

675
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Speaker 1: what that verse is about. It's about that we can't

676
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Speaker 1: make an excuse that the sin was so overwhelming and

677
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit was so inadequate that we couldn't help

678
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Speaker 1: but sin. That's a verse about don't make excuses about sinning.

679
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: God never has allowed us to be tempted beyond the

680
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: ability to resist it. It does not say that bad

681
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: things aren't going to happen to you that will overwhelm you,

682
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: be more than you can handle. You know what Satan's

683
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: doing right there is trying to teach us self reliance.

684
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Speaker 1: That's what he's doing, which is sinful. He wants us

685
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: misinterpreting that verse because he wants us to think that

686
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: we really don't need God. Well, He'll never put more

687
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: in youngon handle. Oh okay, so I'm good, and we

688
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: all know that's just a lie from help. But listen

689
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 1: what he says, does job fear God for no reason?

690
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Speaker 1: Verse ten? Have you not put a hedge around him

691
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Speaker 1: and his house and all he has on every side?

692
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Speaker 1: You have blessed the work of his hands, and his

693
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: possessions have increased in the land. But I'll tell you what.

694
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Speaker 1: You stretch out your hand and touch all that he has,

695
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Speaker 1: and he'll curse you to your face. He loves you

696
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: because you spoil it. Let him have some difficulty, and

697
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: let's see what happens. Well, he details in Satan's view

698
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Speaker 1: why he loves him. I mean, come on, he loves

699
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: and he serves you because you protect him. You protect

700
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Speaker 1: everything that he's had. He is living a life of

701
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Speaker 1: no risk. Of course he loves you. And then eleven

702
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: and twelve was he say, I'll give you a challenge.

703
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: Satan throws down the gauntlet and he says, strike everything

704
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Speaker 1: he has, which is what that means when he just

705
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Speaker 1: stretch out his hand, strike everything he has, and he'll

706
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Speaker 1: curse you. See, you got to remember what Satan calls

707
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Speaker 1: for the first time, is he wants the all out

708
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Speaker 1: assault right out of the gate. I love the fact

709
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Speaker 1: that though more's coming, God will not allow Satan to

710
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Speaker 1: go all in all at once. Don't miss that. There's

711
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Speaker 1: grace in that even though God's about to allow Satan

712
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: to touch him in a certain way, God will walk

713
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: Satan through it, and he'll do it in sequences. That's

714
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Speaker 1: actually gracious to job, because, let's face it, if you

715
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 1: can't find comfort, see what we do. Because we're human beings,

716
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: we still have a sin nature. Instead of us looking

717
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: at this historic event, but we do, we want to

718
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: just dissect where God is and all this hung is God? Really? Look,

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Speaker 1: I have people that I love a lot, and I

720
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Speaker 1: have people that I'm going to spend eternity with. They

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Speaker 1: don't agree with me on this, and they don't agree

722
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Speaker 1: with me on this because they just don't like it.

723
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Speaker 1: You don't have to agree with me. Do you agree

724
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Speaker 1: with the Bible? I didn't come up with this. I

725
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: don't find this to be all that hard to understand.

726
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Speaker 1: I might find it hard to digest, but I don't

727
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Speaker 1: find it hard to understand. I see exactly what's happening.

728
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Speaker 1: It's just whether I'm going to have faith in God

729
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Speaker 1: and trust him and say you are who you are.

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Speaker 1: You know, I always get commentaries out and look through

731
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Speaker 1: this from various people. I love one that I've got

732
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Speaker 1: this time, and it's as soon as I saw it,

733
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Speaker 1: I said, I got to have that one. And you

734
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Speaker 1: know what it says, Let God be God. Let God

735
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Speaker 1: be God. If there's nothing else we find here, we

736
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Speaker 1: got to find this. So here's what happened. God now

737
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Speaker 1: responds in verse twelve, and the Lord said to Satan,

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Speaker 1: behold all that he has is in your hand only

739
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Speaker 1: against him. Do not stretch out your hand. So Satan

740
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Speaker 1: went out from the presence of the Lord. Can't you

741
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: just see that evil? I mean, he's like, that's all

742
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: I needed to hear. Ill saw this quickly. So remember

743
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:30,479
Speaker 1: God is not going to allow Satan to do three

744
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Speaker 1: things now. Eventually throughout, when we get through it all,

745
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: it all will happen. But there's three things that Satan

746
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: wanted to do. He wanted to go after him, he

747
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: wanted to go after his household, and he wanted to

748
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Speaker 1: go after everything that he has. God only grants the

749
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: last two. He says, I'm going to limit your power.

750
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Speaker 1: That power is going to be created by God, who

751
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: also not only did God create Lucifer, not only did

752
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: Lucifer rebel against God, not only did God bring the

753
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: attention to Lucifer about job, not only did he let

754
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Speaker 1: him have the back and forth and the challenge. But

755
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: what God is saying is I, and I alone can

756
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Speaker 1: allow you to do whatever you want to do. And

757
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: on step one, I'm going to tell you what you

758
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: can and you can't do. Now, you can go two

759
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: ways with this. You can let that bother you or

760
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Speaker 1: you can let that comfort you. I'm gonna go with

761
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: the latter, okay, because I know that whatever. Now, Now,

762
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: keep in mind there's a lot of things that go

763
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Speaker 1: on in our lives. James corrects us a little bit

764
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Speaker 1: to be careful that all the things that are going

765
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Speaker 1: on in our life that are negative. Be sure you're

766
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 1: careful not to blame all that on the devil. First

767
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: of all, you got to understand that Satan Lucifer is

768
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Speaker 1: not omniscient. He's not omnipotent, and he's not omnipresent, so

769
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Speaker 1: he cannot be after all of us. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: he didn't have the ability to do that. Only God

771
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: has that ability. So we know he's limited, but he

772
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Speaker 1: has a third of the angels with him that are demonic,

773
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: and that that gives him a little more coverage. Okay,

774
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: so so you got to get that right. I know,

775
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: I love I love the statement, and I forgot who

776
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: it was that wrote this, and I was reading it

777
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: and they were talking about how Martin Luther said he

778
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Speaker 1: sensed that Satan was near him, he could fill him,

779
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: near him, trying to manipulate him, trying to attack him,

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Speaker 1: and the writer who was writing the commentary commentary said,

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00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't think Martin Luther is exaggerating.

782
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: He probably did rank Satan. I don't think I do.

783
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Speaker 1: I don't think Satan would go I could go after

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Speaker 1: Martin Luther. I could go after you. He's probably gonna

785
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: spend time with Luther, you know, or some of the

786
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: as opposed to me. So what does James warn us?

787
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: A lot of times, the challenge that are before us

788
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: is because of our sin nature. We're just misbehaving because

789
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: of our sin nature. We're not being manipulated by the devil,

790
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 1: we're not being manipulated by demons. We just sinful people.

791
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: It's just our own sin nature. So I don't know

792
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: about you. One of the things that I try to pray,

793
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: and I need to do it every day, I do

794
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: it most days, is I ask God to help me

795
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: against my biggest enemy. And I don't mention the devil me.

796
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: I'm a much bigger problem in my life than the devil.

797
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: Is okay, But when you start talking about suffering, you

798
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 1: do need to take away that it is allowed by God,

799
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: because the reason why we know it's allowed is because

800
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: He could stop it. As my wife, we were talking

801
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: about her book a minute ago, and this is just

802
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: one of those big calamities in life. And I know

803
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: y'all have heard about it, but I think here, when

804
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: it fits, I certainly don't want to waste it. I'm

805
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: gonna use it. When she's praying at the hospital, she

806
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: is praying for our son to live, she's praying for

807
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Speaker 1: him to be revived. And she says that she began

808
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: to pray that and that was her whole focus of

809
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 1: the prayer. Lord, bring him back to life, let him

810
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Speaker 1: be revived. And she said Romans chapter eight at one point,

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Speaker 1: uncontrollably the Holy Spirit, which Romans eight tells us, if

812
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: you're redeemed, you have the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit

813
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: at times will correct our prayer when we're praying the

814
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: wrong thing, and it'll correct it what we should be praying.

815
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Speaker 1: And she said, supernaturally she heard herself praying, not my

816
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: will be done, Lord, your will be done. She said,

817
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: I couldn't pray that. The Holy Spirit prayed that for me.

818
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: And at that point she said, I submitted to the

819
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Speaker 1: truth that the Lord could raise this child back to

820
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: complete health. He could be revived all this work they're

821
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: doing on him. Sometimes people come back and they live,

822
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't. But I am now totally submitting to

823
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: the authority of God. You do what you think is best.

824
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: And she stopped praying for him to be revived. She

825
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: just said, whatever if revivals what you want. If you

826
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: want to revive and revive him. If you don't, I understand,

827
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: whatever you do will be right. Do you believe that

828
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: he didn't get anything wrong? It's how we respond to it.

829
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Speaker 1: But he didn't get it wrong. And so in his sovereignty,

830
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,240
Speaker 1: William Browner Burgess would live two and a half years

831
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: on the earth. And that's not incomplete, that's not short.

832
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 1: That's his perfect that's his perfect time period for that

833
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: particular person. And so then we watched him start working

834
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Speaker 1: in that. Could he have worked in the other, Hey,

835
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 1: let's go tell our miracle story. I guess he could,

836
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: but he deemed that this was more effective. And I

837
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: can't really argue with that. And I may not like

838
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: what he decided to do, but I can't argue with

839
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Speaker 1: the results. They've been unbelievable in my life and my

840
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: wife's life and so many others. So that's what you

841
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: got to get, because look right here what we see.

842
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: And this is the thing that I've literally gotten into

843
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: arguments with brothers about because they just don't like it. No,

844
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: the devil did this to job, not God. Well, the

845
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: devil was the tool, but I don't know how to

846
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: break this to you. God did this, all right? Hang on,

847
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: So does an eybonny remember the story of David in Bathsheba?

848
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: I remember that story, pretty popular story, pretty well known.

849
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Speaker 1: Do you remember what happened to the baby? Do you

850
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: remember what happened to the baby they produced? Do you

851
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: know who killed that baby? God did? And if you go,

852
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: when you read that, it literally says that God afflicted

853
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: the baby, not the devil. God afflicted the baby. So

854
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: we know that David had repented. We know that what

855
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 1: he did was horrible, and he realized he'd sinned against God.

856
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 1: But in God's sovereignty. Now they went on to have children,

857
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: you know, we know that, but God's sovereignty said the

858
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: child that was produced in this act, I will kill,

859
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:39,320
Speaker 1: and he did. Now that child is with God because

860
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: we heard David say, the child's not coming back to me,

861
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: but I will go to him. So the child is

862
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: living in eternity with the Lord. But for what he

863
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: wanted done on earth, he deemed that that child's earthly

864
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: life would never get beyond that moment. And it does

865
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: not say that anybody else afflicted that baby but God.

866
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: That's in scripture. So what we see here is that

867
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: though Satan, I use this analogy a lot when I

868
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: teach this, and it seems to resonate. If all of

869
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: a sudden, right now, I had a chain that had

870
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 1: so many links on it, and I had a crazed

871
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: killer dog up here. I'm talking about. This dog would

872
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: seek anybody in here that I put him on, and

873
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: I can think of some of y'all that I might

874
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: do it. I'm just kidding. So you're like, hey, that

875
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: dog's trouble. But if I've got the dog under control,

876
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: I'm actually your problem. The dog isn't your problem, because

877
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: that dog's not gonna do anything. Let's let some chain

878
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: out and let's say Todd sitting over here. Sorry, Todd's

879
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: sitting over here, and I've got the dog and it

880
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: needs five links to bite Todd and attack him, and

881
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: I've got him at three links. Well, he can't get Todd.

882
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: But what if I just side two more links. That

883
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: dog is on a chain. But I gave it enough

884
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: chain to get Todd. Who was in control of the

885
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: dog or me? I was in control the whole time.

886
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 1: So we see the one and only living God telling

887
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: Satan himself, here's what you can do, Here's what you

888
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: can't do. So is it also true that God could

889
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: have said to Satan and Satan could have done nothing.

890
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: You can't do any of it. Yes, and it gets

891
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: ugly quick, and we'll talk about that when we get

892
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: back next week. So remember that God created Lucifer, who

893
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,919
Speaker 1: rebelled against God, who became Satan and became the devil.

894
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: But God also sets the boundaries for what Satan can

895
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: and cannot do. Is it true that Satan wants to kill, steal,

896
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: and destroy. Yes, is it true he will do that? Yes?

897
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: Is it also true he has to be allowed to

898
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 1: That is also true. Now you can be bothered by that,

899
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: or you could be comforted by that. I choose to

900
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: be comforted by that, meaning there's nothing that can happen

901
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: to me that God doesn't allow and if he allows it,

902
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: that it is for the benefit of his kingdom, the

903
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: benefit for me, and the benefit for others. And You've

904
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: heard me say this a lot, and I'll say it

905
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: again when people ask me about suffering, I'll always come

906
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 1: back and say, don't waste it. Don't waste it. Start

907
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: learning to ask the question, what are you teaching me?

908
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: What are you teaching me? What are you teaching me?

909
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: I've got things going on right now that I have

910
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 1: said to the Lord, would you please remove this? Would

911
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: you please stop this? But then what do I say,

912
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: then you will be done? Stop it or don't stop it.

913
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to stop it. That's what I would prefer.

914
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: I would like for this to stop. And you know,

915
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: I realized that if it's continuing, then God says you're

916
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: making the wrong call. This actually needs to go on

917
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: a little longer. So you know what I say, Yes, sir,

918
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: I'm here to do whatever you want me to do.

919
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I have know people that have gone through

920
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 1: incredible difficulty and they have survived it and they praise

921
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: God for it, and there's no doubt that God delivered

922
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 1: them from it. I've seen them go back in the

923
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: situation something similar in the future and it didn't work out.

924
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: So it's all about what God is trying to accomplish.

925
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: And I want you to understand that the greatest thing

926
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: we got to take away from all this is this

927
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: isn't all there is. I hope that we want our

928
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: lives to have eternal impact, and sometimes for our life

929
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: to have eternal impact, the most impact is going to

930
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: come through suffering individually but also to everybody else. Right,

931
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: And you got you know, just just like Jesus says,

932
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Jesus is here when all this is happening.

933
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: What does Jesus say to when everybody was like, we're in,

934
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: we're going to follow you. Jesus said, you have no

935
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: idea what you're signing up for. What am I signing

936
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: up for? Difficulty? But you know we're working on a

937
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: new curriculum for next for the Fall, and it's about

938
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: the standard being raised in the Book of Acts. See

939
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: the beautiful thing about the fact that we're on the

940
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: other side of the resurrection, we're on the other side

941
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: of the cross, is that we have access to the

942
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 1: fullness of God, to the power of the Holy Spirit.

943
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: And if you ever just want to be inspired, and

944
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: the curriculum focuses on this, go look at these men

945
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: and women when it even comes to suffering. After they've

946
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,919
Speaker 1: received the Holy Spirit, after they've seen that resurrection, after

947
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: they have been taught for forty days by Jesus, after

948
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: he ascends and he pours out that Holy Spirit on them,

949
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 1: their view of suffering changes completely completely. I mean, think

950
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: about it. I'm giving away the curriculum. Adler not working

951
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 1: the yesterday. Just go to when Peter and James are

952
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: arrested by Herod. Now, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Okay,

953
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 1: they get arrested by Herod and this is interesting. There's Peter,

954
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: there's James. What happens to James dead? Herod kills him

955
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: with the sword. I don't know if it's one of

956
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 1: his soldiers just said Herod killed him with the sword.

957
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: Maybe Herod did himself, and Herod looked around. He said, Wow,

958
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 1: I killed one of these apostles, and everybody's digging that.

959
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 1: They like that. Somebody go grab Peter. If they love

960
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 1: me killing James, the brother of John, They're gonna really

961
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: love me killing Peter, so they go grab Peter. Now

962
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: Peter knows that James was just killed like that, and

963
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: God allowed that to happen because he could have stopped it.

964
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: What happens to Peter at this time? Peter's put in jail,

965
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: and then Herod realizes, Oh, no, the passovers here. I

966
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: can't kill Peter yet. Let's put give me four squadron

967
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: the soldiers, y'all, shackle him, put him into prison. When

968
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: the passover's over, I'm gonna kill him too. So Peter

969
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: knows he's in jail, in shackles. He's in between two soldiers.

970
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: Because Herod knows enough that there's something up with these guys,

971
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: you'd think that would be enough for him to leave

972
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: me along. Okay, when the angel is sent by the Lord,

973
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: didn't send one for James. The only angel James got

974
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: was the one that was taking him to heaven. Okay.

975
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: An angel goes to Peter and we know in the

976
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: Book of Acts, the angel has to physically shake him.

977
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: Why to wake him up? He's asleep. He's asleep. You

978
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,439
Speaker 1: think he hasn't signed on for your will be done?

979
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: Would you be sleeping? He's so asleep. The angel has

980
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: to shake him. Get up. He didn't have his shoes on.

981
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,920
Speaker 1: He got comfortable. Put your sandals on? Where's your coat?

982
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I'm sleeping. He has to put his

983
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:32,919
Speaker 1: coat on for the angel to walk him out of there.

984
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: You think he doesn't he's not bought in that. God's

985
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: in control. But listen, James got killed and Peter's next,

986
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: and he's sleeping because God's in control. And God decides

987
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: when Satan can put his hand on you when he can.

988
00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: He's in control, and you rest in that. Let's pray Lord,

989
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you for today, Thank you for this

990
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: journey that we're on right now, studying this incredibly interesting

991
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: man job who I know is with you now, and

992
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: may he inspire us and we also are going to

993
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: find out a lot over the next several chapters. Ord,

994
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: will you guide us? And for those that are sitting

995
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: here today, may we leave a little more at peace

996
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: When it comes to difficulty and the difficulties of life.

997
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: In the attacks of the adversary and your holy name,

998
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 1: we pray Amen.