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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Hello, my name is

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Speaker 1: Rick Burgess. I'll be teaching again today the Book of Job.

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Speaker 1: Today will continue our study. We're in chapter twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: If you want to go ahead and turn with me

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Speaker 1: to Job chapter twenty seven. That's where we'll pick up

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Speaker 1: today as we continue to roll through this study of

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Speaker 1: this very provocative book of the Bible. And if you

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Speaker 1: word of prayer, and then we'll jump right into Joe

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Speaker 1: chapter twenty seven. Lord, thank you for today, thank you

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Speaker 1: for the opportunity to be with the men here in

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Speaker 1: world on the archive or the live streaming. Lord, I

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Speaker 1: pray that you continue to bless us through this incredible

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Speaker 1: and powerful historical moment of you dealing with a man

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Speaker 1: named Job, and also the things that we see in him,

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Speaker 1: and the things we see and his friends and the

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Speaker 1: things we are learning about. You help us again today

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Speaker 1: to discern this properly and be with those that are

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Speaker 1: have you know sickness or difficulties. Lord, I pray that

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Speaker 1: and your name we pray Amen. All right, So here

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Speaker 1: we go to Job chapter twenty seven. Job chapter twenty

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Speaker 1: seven is just going to continue from where we were

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Speaker 1: the floor up. Talked about this after the Bible study

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Speaker 1: last week and even talked about it on the Daily Show.

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Speaker 1: Those who don't know I host a radio show every

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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday called the Rick Burgess Show. You can

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Speaker 1: find all that information at rickburgesshow dot com. But I

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Speaker 1: were studying twenty five where Bill Dad comes in and

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Speaker 1: But but anyway, this is very serious because these men

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Speaker 1: why they don't believe him is they have a flawed theology,

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Speaker 1: which God is working out through this whole process. Now

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Speaker 1: Job also is a little flawed, and God's gonna deal

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Speaker 1: with that too. But right now we're gonna we're gonna talk.

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Speaker 1: Job is going to take the floor and he is

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Speaker 1: not going to give it back. This is going to

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Speaker 1: And this seems to be the most intense narrative from Job,

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Speaker 1: I can feel the pushback. You know, I've noticed when

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Speaker 1: they seem to also be pretending that Satan is omnipotent

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Speaker 1: God who have incredible integrity. But if Satan can't be

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Speaker 1: And the question is can can Satan and the demons

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Speaker 1: So I was just talking about just to appease you.

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Speaker 1: And have you have you ever been there? And look,

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Speaker 1: to reason with unreasonable people. You know, if I've answered

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Speaker 1: the prayer of repentance. But but if you have not repented,

427
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Speaker 1: and you keep crying out to God, you know, without repentance,

428
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Speaker 1: you know, I know, it's an uncomfortable thing. And this

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Speaker 1: one of those things again that we try to take theology.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you've ever read the moments throughout scripture,

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Speaker 1: Psalm chapter five is one of them. I mean, Psalm

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Speaker 1: five is that it says that God with the unrepented,

433
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Speaker 1: he actually hates the wicked. Now, I know that's not

434
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Speaker 1: very popular because we're always being told that God just

435
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Speaker 1: loves everybody unrepented or repented. No, God is willing to

436
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Speaker 1: open himself up to everybody to receive his grace and

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Speaker 1: mercy and his love. But if you reject God and

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Speaker 1: you won't repent, and you push him aside and you

439
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Speaker 1: reject him, but he didn't love you. Matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: he's going to kill you. He's going to destroy you.

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Speaker 1: So that really isn't true. And Psalm five says that

442
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Speaker 1: he actually hates people that continue to act wicked and

443
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Speaker 1: reject him. So here you see that Job goes further

444
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Speaker 1: and say you can cry all day if you're not

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Speaker 1: right with God, and it's not gonna matter. Uh. Verse ten,

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Speaker 1: will he take the light in the Almighty? Talking about

447
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Speaker 1: the godless? Will he call upon God at all times?

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Speaker 1: He says, God finds no delight in these people. They

449
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Speaker 1: don't call on God unless they're in the bind. I

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Speaker 1: thought about that. What's this? What's the artist with all

451
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Speaker 1: the tattoos, big fat fellow? What's it called jelly row?

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Speaker 1: First time I saw that, I thought, Wow, that's right

453
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Speaker 1: on the nose, isn't it? Jelly rose a jelly row?

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Speaker 1: But anyway, he he you know, he's remember when he

455
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Speaker 1: wrote that song, only talk to God when I need

456
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Speaker 1: something or something like that. And and and you know

457
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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people that have that relationship.

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Speaker 1: They want nothing to do with God unless they can

459
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Speaker 1: get in the bind. Uh. I only talk to God.

460
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Speaker 1: I need it when I need a favor, that's what.

461
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: And uh and he's saying, well, the godless are that way.

462
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Speaker 1: And if all you're gonna do is call on him

463
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Speaker 1: when you need something, uh. He he doesn't. He doesn't.

464
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Speaker 1: He doesn't take delight in people that have nothing to

465
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Speaker 1: do with him. Then all of a sudden, you're in

466
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Speaker 1: a buying you start calling out to it. And then

467
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Speaker 1: he gets into the fate of the Wicked and the

468
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Speaker 1: rest of this particular chapter eleven. He says, this you

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Speaker 1: that he is using seems to be plural, and again

470
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Speaker 1: we think this represents his friends, and he's likely about

471
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Speaker 1: to address this meaningless talk they've had. The first two

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Speaker 1: verses are kind of like an introduction to what's going

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Speaker 1: to follow, maybe even into chapter twenty eight. Some of

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Speaker 1: this is gonna continue, but it's not a real introduction.

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Speaker 1: It's just him saying, I will teach you concerning the

476
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Speaker 1: hand of God. What is with the Almighty, I will

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Speaker 1: not conceal twelve. Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves.

478
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Speaker 1: Why then have you become altogether vain? So he's saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to clue you in on the power of God.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to hold anything back what I have stated.

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Speaker 1: Now we're in twelve. What I have stated is so

482
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Speaker 1: blatantly obvious. Righteous sometimes suffer, wicked, sometimes prosper. But you

483
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: can clearly see these things are going on. Are you

484
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Speaker 1: just too proud to admit that everything I've stated and

485
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: the flaws in our theology, you can plainly see the

486
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: same things I see. I didn't see something with specializes.

487
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Speaker 1: So what I don't understand? Are you just too arrogant

488
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Speaker 1: to finally go, hey, job, you know what? You made

489
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Speaker 1: some good points, you know, let's face it, sometimes some

490
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: of the most difficult thing we deal with. Rick Burgess included,

491
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: how about this. I don't like to be wrong. I

492
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Speaker 1: don't think any of us do. But it's one thing

493
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,479
Speaker 1: not to really enjoy admitting you're wrong. It's quite another

494
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Speaker 1: to be so arrogant that you won't admit it. Raise

495
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Speaker 1: your hand if you've ever been wrong about something right,

496
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Speaker 1: But don't you hate that when you have to just

497
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Speaker 1: go Hey, by the way, I was wrong on that,

498
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Speaker 1: but I will tell you, if you're willing to do it,

499
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Speaker 1: it's pretty freeing. It can be embarrassing, but it's freeing.

500
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: And what he's saying is the things I'm saying are

501
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: so elementary, They're just so logical, They're so easy to

502
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Speaker 1: see with your own eye. I don't understand why y'all

503
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Speaker 1: want to come around to what I keep pointing out.

504
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: Maybe you're just too arrogant to do so. And you know,

505
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: terrors the wicked can expect are now going to start

506
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Speaker 1: in verse thirteen and then the rest of the chapter.

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Speaker 1: This is the portion of a wicked man with God

508
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Speaker 1: and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty. This

509
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Speaker 1: is really now an introduction to the rest of the

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Speaker 1: chapter on what's going to happen, first of all, and

511
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Speaker 1: now I want you to pick up you probably already

512
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Speaker 1: have if you've read this time. Some of you do

513
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: a great job of even getting out ahead of it

514
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: and studying it. If you pick up where we're going

515
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Speaker 1: now fourteen through the rest of the chapter. A lot

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Speaker 1: of these things he says are things they said about

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Speaker 1: him and he's bringing it back. So I'll tell you what.

518
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you who the wicked may be here. It's

519
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Speaker 1: not me. I think it's y'all. And all the things

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Speaker 1: y'all said about the wicked's gonna happen to you. So

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Speaker 1: he says in fourteen, if his children are multiplied, it

522
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Speaker 1: is for the sword. And his descendants have not enough bread.

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Speaker 1: They said that about Job. They said that Job's wickedness

524
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Speaker 1: had doomed his children. And he comes back and says, well,

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Speaker 1: now I remember what y'all said about wicked people, and

526
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Speaker 1: I've just declared you're wicked. So according to y'all, wicked

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Speaker 1: people have doomed their children. And so he brings that

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Speaker 1: up fifteen. Those who survive him the pestilence berries and

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Speaker 1: his widows do not weep. Why is used here? Uh?

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Speaker 1: And and and some of the the different It says

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Speaker 1: widows here. Some of your translations may say wives. But

532
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Speaker 1: but when you see this, this is this is not

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Speaker 1: really pointing to polygamy. It just means all the wives

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Speaker 1: of wicked people, all the widows of wicked people. Some

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Speaker 1: people thought, is he saying something about polygamy here? It

536
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Speaker 1: certainly was happening in that culture. Uh. But he says

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Speaker 1: that that wicked people doom the plight of their wife,

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Speaker 1: their spouse, and they are glad when the wicked spouse

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Speaker 1: is dead. They don't weep. You think, you think there's

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Speaker 1: not spouses out there that are being treated horribly by

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Speaker 1: a wicked husband, our wicked wife, and their life is

542
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Speaker 1: so miserable, and they're so oppressed that you can be

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Speaker 1: so wicked that when you die, he's spouse is not

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Speaker 1: gonna weep about that, glad you're gone. And then he

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Speaker 1: goes on to say that you know any of those

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Speaker 1: that survive, meaning the pestilence this wicked person has caused

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Speaker 1: in a home, And I will tell you you know,

548
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 1: I know people, and I've canceled people, And like I

549
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Speaker 1: said even in the book, men don't run in the rain.

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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful I didn't have the deady issues that

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Speaker 1: some people had and husband issues for some of you

552
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Speaker 1: women that join us on the streaming and the archives.

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Speaker 1: But I have seen the damage it does in other

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Speaker 1: people's lives. And there's nothing quite so miserable that a

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Speaker 1: house of pestilence that's caused by wicked man, the kind

556
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Speaker 1: of man everybody has to step on eggshells around. You

557
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: don't ever know when he's gonna go off. He's almost

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Speaker 1: a tyrant in the home, food always unpredictable, and anger

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Speaker 1: that is terrifying to his wife and his children. That's no,

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Speaker 1: that's not a house you want to live in. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've known people that said, you know, their dad was

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Speaker 1: such like so much like that. When they got old enough,

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Speaker 1: i mean, they would almost beg friends to let them

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Speaker 1: spend the night. They didn't want to go stay in

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Speaker 1: their own house, and they dreaded being in their own house,

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Speaker 1: and as soon as they were able to leave, they left.

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Speaker 1: And I've even had some that were you know, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is right. I'm just saying that

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Speaker 1: were upset that the mom did not make us stand

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Speaker 1: that allowed them to stay in that situation. You know. Now,

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Speaker 1: sometimes that might be something that you don't understand till

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Speaker 1: you get older and you find out that maybe there

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Speaker 1: were reasons for that. But I'm just I'm really talking

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Speaker 1: about the pestilence more than anything. There's nothing quite like

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Speaker 1: Evel wicked man inside a home. And this is what

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Speaker 1: he's talking about. Those that survive everything this wicked person does.

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Speaker 1: When that wicked person is buried, they'll be glad they're gone. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a rough but it's true. Sixteen and seventeen kind

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Speaker 1: of go together. Though. He heap up silver like dust

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Speaker 1: and pile up clothing like clay. He may pile up,

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00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will

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Speaker 1: divide the silver. So these go together as one at

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Speaker 1: the end. It is the righteous who are going to

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Speaker 1: be truly rich in the end. The wicked man or

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Speaker 1: the niked wicked woman. The wicked may have it for

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Speaker 1: a moment. They may have richest for just for a moment,

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Speaker 1: and they may have all that you could ever imagine

588
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: for a moment, But when they die, it will be

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00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 1: the righteous that will inherit the things that they thought

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00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: were theirs. They're not going to take it with them.

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00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: It's going to be divided up by the innocent. Eighteen.

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Speaker 1: He builds his house like a moth's like a booth

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Speaker 1: that a watchman makes. Now, you'd have to know the

594
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: culture here to kind of know what he's talking about.

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Speaker 1: One of them's in nature, so that one we should

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Speaker 1: all know. But if you ever have you ever seen

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Speaker 1: what a moth lives in. It's a very fragile cocoon.

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Speaker 1: It's not even as nice as a butterfly. It's a

599
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Speaker 1: very fragile cocoon. And the watchman booth, the watchman's booth

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Speaker 1: he's talking about during harvest. If you were security to

601
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Speaker 1: watch over the harvest, you just lived in a temporary

602
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Speaker 1: little shack or a booth, and you stayed there and

603
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Speaker 1: watched everything until the harvest was over, and then you

604
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: didn't live there anymore. Temporary housing bottom line. So what

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00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: he's saying is, you know, when you're wicked, you may

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Speaker 1: think that you've got this incredible home and this place

607
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: we should all just you know, be in awe of.

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Speaker 1: But really, because of your wickedness and what's going to

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00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: happen to you, you're in something as fragile as a

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Speaker 1: moth's cocoon or a watchman's booth. You think that you

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Speaker 1: have all this, but you really got nothing. Twenty. By

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00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: the way, don't forget that the friends of Job, I

613
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Speaker 1: mean in verse nineteen, the friends of Job all wealthy people.

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00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: They're all wealthy. So now we get to nineteen. He

615
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: goes to bed rich, but will do so no more.

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Speaker 1: He opens his eyes. His wealth it's gone. It's just

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Speaker 1: more of job talking about how temporary earthly wealth is.

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Speaker 1: And as he has seen. Of course, they claim it's

619
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Speaker 1: because he's wicked, and he says it's not. But you

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00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: made the point friends that the wicked they they they

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Speaker 1: can lose their wealth overnight. It can be gone just

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Speaker 1: like that. Uh. We well, if you don't believe that

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Speaker 1: we did a story on the day Job the day

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00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: that we're doing this, uh, and and it is that

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00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is talking about how his life has changed

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Speaker 1: and he's no longer superman to his eight children, no wife,

627
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: but but eight children. And because he's not making the

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00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: money he was making an NFL and uh he only

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Speaker 1: made one hundred and thirty million while being in But

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Speaker 1: in all fairness, though, before y'all start rolling your eyes,

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Speaker 1: after taxes, it's only eighty four million and and so

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00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: uh and uh and and it is uh, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: Uh and it's it's it's it has fate, he said,

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Speaker 1: I can't provide for them like I once did. Now

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Speaker 1: many people have looked at if just the slightest of

636
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: conservative investments, he could be drawn about two million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year to live off of. Now. I don't know

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00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: what happened, but h and Greg brought this up. My brother.

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Speaker 1: He said he saw Mike Tyson be interviewed one time

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Speaker 1: and Mike Tyson he even actually did a Broadway type thing,

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Speaker 1: a theater thing where Tyson was sit there and tell

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Speaker 1: you how he lost everything. And it was one statement,

643
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: though was easy. He said, I'll tell you how you

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Speaker 1: can go through ten million dollars spend eleven megion, you know,

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Speaker 1: And uh, I mean it's pretty simple and so and

646
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Speaker 1: so this is the this is what he's talking about.

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Speaker 1: This wealth is so fragile, it can be gone in

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Speaker 1: no time. And and so it's really kind of relative.

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Speaker 1: You know. I know people that don't what we wouldn't say,

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Speaker 1: make up much money at all, and they've just been

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Speaker 1: real wise with it. And they're a lot wealthier than

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Speaker 1: people that have a lot of big houses and a

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00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: bunch cards, you know, and multiple homes and all that

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Speaker 1: they're not worried about how they're going to live at

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Speaker 1: all because they've been wise with what they have. So

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Speaker 1: then you get into to verse twenty and it says

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Speaker 1: that terrors overtake him like a flood in the night,

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Speaker 1: a whirlwind carries him off. Terror is coming for the wicked,

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Speaker 1: God is to be feared. Wrath is coming. And you know,

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Speaker 1: if you really do believe what we believe that, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're called that anybody who doesn't fear God lacks wisdom. Now,

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Speaker 1: I've had people, I don't know why, for some reason,

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Speaker 1: we as the church think that God needs us to

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Speaker 1: be a public relations agent for him, don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: know where we get off of that kind of arrogance.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard people take fear of God and

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00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: immediately try to down Well, now that just means we

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Speaker 1: have respect for God. No, it, I mean that that's

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Speaker 1: part of it. But the actual Hebrew word there also

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Speaker 1: includes terror. Uh it. We should be terrified of the

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Speaker 1: wrath of God. I'll go as far as to say,

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Speaker 1: if you're not, you'll always You've heard me say this before,

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Speaker 1: you'll always dumb down his grace and mercy if you don't,

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Speaker 1: if you're not terrified or understand the wrath of God,

675
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: you'll always cheapen the grace and the mercy because it

676
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: won't feel like that big a deal. You know, if

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Speaker 1: somebody said, hey, Rick was gonna come over here and

678
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Speaker 1: and he was gonna come out here and chop one

679
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: of your trees down if you didn't get right with him.

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00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: You'd go, well, I really hate for that to happen.

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Speaker 1: Uh So he says, if you'll say you're sorry, he

682
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: won't come chop that tree down. And you know, you

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00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: tell me sorry, and you go, well, I'm kind of

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00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: glad he didn't shot my tree down. What if you heard, Hey,

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00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: if you don't get right with Rick, he's gonna burn

686
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: your house down. He's gonna kill everybody in this house.

687
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you heard that. I said, Man,

688
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: I'm good, your apology, accepted, my grace and mercy feels

689
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 1: a little better than the tree thing, doesn't it. And

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes we're so quick to not want to

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Speaker 1: talk about God's wrath, as if that's not part of

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Speaker 1: his character, that we're going to be his public relations agent. No,

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Speaker 1: what Scripture is saying is if you're not afraid of

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Speaker 1: God's wrath, you're not very wise. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: be on the wrong side of God. Right do we

696
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: also respect and love him and we're in all of him,

697
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: of course, But there's also supposed to be a terror

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00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: there of his wrath. And so this is what Job

699
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: is talking about. When you're not right with God, terror

700
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Speaker 1: overtakes you when his wrath comes like a flood or maybe,

701
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: and the night is a whirlwind and it's just gonna

702
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Speaker 1: carry you off. And if you're wicked, that's what's coming,

703
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Speaker 1: which should produce terror. So then in twenty one, the

704
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: east wind lifts him up and he is gone. It

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00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: sweeps him out of his place. Now God will use

706
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: the east wind to destroy the wicked, And the east

707
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 1: wind is something they were very familiar with. That that

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00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,439
Speaker 1: was usually where bad weather came from. You know, even

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00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: in our time, it's different. I don't know where if

710
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: some of you live that are out there, but for

711
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 1: us there's sometimes exceptions. We always know that the fronts

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00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: are coming from the west and they're gonna move from

713
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: west to east, and we're gonna start watching. If you

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Speaker 1: know how the I hope you know some geography and

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00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: know how the state is set up. We start looking

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Speaker 1: in Arkansas, then we start looking at Mississippi and we're like, well,

717
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: here it comes. And then we know it's gonna hit

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Speaker 1: West Alabama first and then it's gonna roll on to Birmingham,

719
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: and then we'll see where it goes from there. And

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Speaker 1: it really seems to have two paths when it starts

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00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: to get in the east that it takes either one

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00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: that goes on up from where I was from in

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Speaker 1: Calhoun County, or it goes down there through Saint Clair

724
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: County and heads that way. But for them, the east

725
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: wind was something that usually bad weather for them came

726
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Speaker 1: from h And he's saying, the east wind is going

727
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: to destroy the wicked. God may use a storm to

728
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Speaker 1: do it. And he says, look, he's getting more and

729
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Speaker 1: more detailed. It says in twenty two. It hurls at

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Speaker 1: him without pity. He flees from its power and headlong flight.

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Speaker 1: These punishing storms that God sends on the wicked will

732
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Speaker 1: show no mercy. You have not made a friend of God,

733
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Speaker 1: and so therefore, if you died a friend of God,

734
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Speaker 1: you don't have God to shell you in the time

735
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: of a storm. Once again, you look back to what

736
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 1: we've said a couple of times. There's Matthew seven. Again.

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Speaker 1: If you're not right with God, when the storm comes

738
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Speaker 1: and it comes on the righteous and the unrighteous, if

739
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: you're not with God, you can't survive the storm. That's it.

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Speaker 1: And then verse twenty three, it claps its hands at

741
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: him and hisses at him from its place. What does

742
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: this mean? Well, think about it. These are the sounds

743
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: of a storm, you know. This is what this is.

744
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: A sound of storm makes Wicked comes to an end,

745
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: Wicked is swept away by shrieking wind erased from the

746
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: face of the earth. Job is saying, this is how

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00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: they see it, but he does not think God's moral

748
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: administration of the world is that simple. He's throwing what

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Speaker 1: they said right back at him and saying, if this

750
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Speaker 1: is what you believe, and if you're being wicked, this

751
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: is what's going to happen to you. But he's saying,

752
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: I think it's more complicated than all this, and I

753
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: think there's more to God's moral administration of bad things

754
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: happening and good things happening. I just don't think it's

755
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: that simple from what I've observed. I don't think I

756
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Speaker 1: would we would say this way in our falling state

757
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: and the falling creation, that God's moral administration is operating,

758
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: that's simplistic. It feels a lot more complicated than that

759
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: to me. And he's throwing all this back at them, saying, well,

760
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: this is what's going to happen to you. Now here's

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00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:55,760
Speaker 1: what's interesting. This is going to end the debate cycle, okay,

762
00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: and we're not going to have three free going after

763
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: one guy anymore, luckily. And and I think one of

764
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: the things that we need to take away too, that

765
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 1: that's a bigger point is when you when you look

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00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: at the voting system, just because the liars have more

767
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: votes does not make their lie true. Because really, right here,

768
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Speaker 1: if this is a jury, Job gets out voted, there'd

769
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: be three votes that Job is wicked, and there'd be

770
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: one vote that no, I'm not, and the three to

771
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: one would win. But thankfully, the truth is not determined

772
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: by popular vote. And when you start thinking about this

773
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: image of the wicked that Job is talking about, and

774
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: you you you start thinking to him, to yourself, how

775
00:47:55,280 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: can Job take this kind of turn on these people,

776
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: well that have obviously been his friend for some period

777
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,919
Speaker 1: of time, right, I mean, they're the three that came.

778
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: How can Joe begin to start feeling the way start

779
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: feeling the way that he clearly does so disappointed in

780
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: their accusations, and he knows that he's right with God,

781
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: and you know there's a lot of foreshadowing here, and

782
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: those of you that were with us on the study

783
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: of the Revelation, and I know for a lot of

784
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: you it was uncomfortable. And again it's interesting how God

785
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: weaves all this together. I got an email with this

786
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: question in it half hour before the Bible study. And

787
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:50,760
Speaker 1: the question is, which has been asked many times, if

788
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: our friends are our family, reject God and find themselves

789
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of God all the way to

790
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: their death, how will that affect us in eternity? And

791
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: we talked about this in the Revelation, So some of

792
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: you heard this, and I know some of you it

793
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: may be a little bitter and difficult, but you're thinking

794
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: about this with a finite mind, and you're thinking about

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00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: this with a sin nature. Here you're not glorified yet.

796
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: And the answer to that, which is where job I

797
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: think is getting even here in the Old Testament, is

798
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Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. If you're against God,

799
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: then I'm against you. And I want you to know,

800
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 1: based on everything we've read in scripture and in the Revelation,

801
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: when the wicked supernatural demonic forces in Satan along with

802
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: the wicked humans are destroyed by God, no matter who

803
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: they they are. When we've been in the presence of

804
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: the one and only Living God, when our glorified bodies

805
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:15,720
Speaker 1: are fellowshipping with a glorified Savior and a glorified God

806
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: that is holy, holy, holy, we will be in such worship.

807
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,879
Speaker 1: We will be so enamored with God that we will

808
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: take on his character and we will oppose everybody who's

809
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: rejected Him, and it won't bother us at all, no

810
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: matter who they are, based on who He is, and

811
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: our worship of people will cease and we will oppose

812
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: them just as he does. Now that doesn't mean give up.

813
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: One day, I'll be no, because we certainly want to

814
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: stand before him saying I did what you told me

815
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: to do. I told him the truth over and over

816
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 1: and over. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed.

817
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: I did everything you told me to do because I

818
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: loved them, but more importantly, because I wanted to be

819
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: obedient to you. So you'll stand there guiltless. But if

820
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: they reject God, I promise you the day is coming

821
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: that you'll reject them. And that's what we see because

822
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: believe it or not, God will be more important to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for

824
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: this lesson, Thank you for the things you've taught us.

825
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: Thank you for sometimes difficult truths. But we certainly understand

826
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: Job being at the end of his rope with these

827
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: people who keep accusing him of something he has not done.

828
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: Now we do know he's got a date with you

829
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: coming up, and some things with Job we're going to

830
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: be set straight as well. But you will agree with

831
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: his assessment of his friends. Lord, thank you for the

832
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: grace of mercy you've shown us. None of us are

833
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,760
Speaker 1: worthy of your grace and mercy. We all deserve your wrath,

834
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: but by the grace and mercy you bestowed upon us

835
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: by taking on human flesh and paying the price for us,

836
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: You pouring out your wrath on yourself, your own son,

837
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: so that those of us that repent and confess him

838
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,720
Speaker 1: as our Lord and our savior, and the only payment

839
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 1: for sin we can be seen by you is fully righteous.

840
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: And in your holy name we pray Amen. Thanks for

841
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: being with us.