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Speaker 1: in the middle of a a Bible study on the

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Speaker 1: Book of Job. We are today in Job chapter twelve.

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Speaker 1: If you want to turn there the Book of Job,

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Speaker 1: very provocative book of the Bible, one that sometimes is avoided.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's very difficult. Sometimes there's all sorts of opinions

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Speaker 1: this study that we're just walking through it word for word,

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Speaker 1: any direction other than what the Bible actually says. There's

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Speaker 1: some deep stuff here, but that's the wonder of the

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Speaker 1: So we're going to continue today in Job chapter twelve.

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Speaker 1: up Job Chapter twelve. Today, Lord, thank you for the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to get together and to unpack your holy word.

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Speaker 1: The power of your Holy Spirit may give us the discernment.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's so amazing and supernatural. We can study

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Speaker 1: So we've gone through eleven chapters. We have dealt with

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Speaker 1: Laughing stock is used twice by Job here, and so

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Speaker 1: two things you don't want see. They would say, well,

427
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Speaker 1: everything's right if God has the water where it should be. No,

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Speaker 1: he said no, No, when it dries up or we

429
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Speaker 1: got too much of it, He's in that too, And

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Speaker 1: he's telling me do you agree with that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: do y'all think that God's only in the plants are

432
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Speaker 1: green and when we all have plenty of deed and

433
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Speaker 1: the water's just right and the sunlight's just right? Or

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Speaker 1: do you think he's also in when we have famine?

435
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Speaker 1: You think he's also in when everything's being flooded? Is

436
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Speaker 1: he in those things too? And the answer is yes,

437
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: we know that. So then we get into sixteen with

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Speaker 1: him our strength and sound wisdom. The deceived and the

439
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Speaker 1: deceiver are his deception. Even when there's deception. And this

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Speaker 1: is a tough one, tough pill, jagged little pell. He said,

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Speaker 1: even when you've been deceived, God allowed it because something

442
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Speaker 1: he could have stopped it. He could have given you perfect,

443
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Speaker 1: perfect clarity, couldn't he, So he said, So he's trying

444
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Speaker 1: to set up even though you are saying the same

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Speaker 1: the right things. Doesn't you haven't been deceived, even by

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Speaker 1: the things you think you know about God, so he says. So,

447
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Speaker 1: even when there's deception, God is still there because his

448
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Speaker 1: wisdom is sound. So if you were deceived, then it's

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Speaker 1: not because the lack of God's wisdom, and even the

450
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Speaker 1: deceiver can be used by God to accomplish something he

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Speaker 1: wants done. Lucifer, Okay, so this is he, you see, job,

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Speaker 1: He's really all around it here seventeen. He leads counselors

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Speaker 1: away stripped and judges. He makes fools. I wonder who

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Speaker 1: he's talking about when he talks about counselors. You think

455
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Speaker 1: that you think that one was being pushed back, y'all

456
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Speaker 1: think y'all give a better counsel than God. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: God delights in undoing what he humans have done. How

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Speaker 1: many times throughout scripture do God say, and now I'm

459
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Speaker 1: going to reveal to you just how stupid you really are.

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Speaker 1: And I take great pleasure and showing you how wrong

461
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Speaker 1: you are about what you're doing. And and so, I mean,

462
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Speaker 1: how many times have we seen this? Think? I mean,

463
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Speaker 1: think about how quick Neba Cazar went from look at

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Speaker 1: everything I've done to eating grass and having and sleeping

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Speaker 1: out on the ground. That didn't take long. Okay, But

466
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Speaker 1: when when Nebukan is doing this great monologue about himself,

467
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: God's like, I'm about to show this guy what an

468
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Speaker 1: idiot he really is. And he and he digs that,

469
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Speaker 1: and he takes great pleasure in that he dismantles human enterprise.

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Speaker 1: The best we were taught this in Scripture. The best

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Speaker 1: human wisdom I'm talking about. The most intelligent people we

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Speaker 1: got are people who think they're intelligent. Are folly compared

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Speaker 1: to God. How silly, how pathetic. This is the smartest

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Speaker 1: human being on the planet. The distance between our wisdom

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Speaker 1: and our intelligence and God is you can't even comprehend

476
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Speaker 1: how vast that gap is. And from time to time

477
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Speaker 1: God likes to remind us of that. And so he said,

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Speaker 1: you may think you're a great counselor. He sends them

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Speaker 1: away striped, naked. And these judges that think they have

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Speaker 1: all this power, it don't mean anything to him. Look

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Speaker 1: at eighteen. He looses the bonds of kings and binds

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Speaker 1: a wastecloth on their hips. He can remove a king.

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Speaker 1: Scripture tells us this what I love the analogy when

484
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Speaker 1: we're told in scripture that like I could take my

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Speaker 1: finger and move ice around and a drink. And he said,

486
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Speaker 1: that's about how much effort it takes God to take

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Speaker 1: a king and remove him, take a ruler and remove him,

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Speaker 1: take a nation and be done with it. And he says,

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Speaker 1: you can be a king. And before you know it,

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Speaker 1: not only can he remove your authority. The other one

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Speaker 1: talks about them them having judgment and their decision. He says,

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Speaker 1: he can reverse your decision just like that, I the

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Speaker 1: king rule this. And God said, and I'm more reverse

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Speaker 1: that right now. That he said, that's how much we

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Speaker 1: we the distance between us. And then he goes into nineteen.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna talk about He's gonna talk about priest. He says,

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Speaker 1: he leads priest away stripped and overthrows the mighty. You

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Speaker 1: know the thing I love about this researching this when

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Speaker 1: you look at the language here, and he didn't fail

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Speaker 1: to put priest in there too. God has He is

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Speaker 1: not impressed at all with titles. Well, you may not

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Speaker 1: realize I'm a high ranking priest and God is not impressed.

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Speaker 1: You may not know I'm CEO of one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest companies in this country, in the world. I am

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Speaker 1: not impressed. You know, I was elected deacon. Maybe you

506
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Speaker 1: should go mop the floor. Stop being so full of yourself.

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Speaker 1: I'm an elder, elder, wisdom wise, elder of the church.

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Speaker 1: I'm the pastor. He's not impressed with any of that,

509
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Speaker 1: and he says what he will do eventually. We've seen it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we've seen some pretty high as my family will say,

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Speaker 1: high falutin folks that God made fools of even inside

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Speaker 1: the church, right, massive ministries, all the things I've done

513
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Speaker 1: for the kingdom. Next thing, you know, God's knocked you

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Speaker 1: down just like that, and he says he is not

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Speaker 1: impressed with any title. He deprives of speech of those

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Speaker 1: who are trusted, and he takes away the discernment of

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Speaker 1: the elders. Whatever it is. He can silence those who

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Speaker 1: think they have so much to say that's a great one.

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Speaker 1: Those that have so much knowledge, those that are such

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Speaker 1: gifted orators to God, he could deprive speech of those

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Speaker 1: that everybody else thinks just you know, and it always

522
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: we're human beings, we do this, don't we. We saw

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Speaker 1: this even when we were studying, you know, the letters

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Speaker 1: to the Corinthians. You remember when Paul had to come

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Speaker 1: deal with everybody because they all started these factions of

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Speaker 1: who they liked. And of course there was a group

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Speaker 1: that loved Apollos, but they loved Apollos because he was

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Speaker 1: a gifted ortor. That was really I mean, he certainly

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Speaker 1: got it right, even though he had to have some

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Speaker 1: theology lessons there, apparently from Priscilla and Aquilo. But at

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Speaker 1: one point he immediately developed a following why he was

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Speaker 1: a good speaker, you know, and I think I have

533
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Speaker 1: I told you all the story about me being humbled

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Speaker 1: about some of that by the guy that worked with

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Speaker 1: by Graham for a long long time. I was on

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Speaker 1: a flight with him. We were going to do an

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Speaker 1: event together. And I won't give his name, but he

538
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Speaker 1: had worked with Billy Graham for a long long time,

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Speaker 1: and he was now an older man himself, and so

540
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: we'd never met, never met, and he was talking and

541
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, I want to grab some wisdom

542
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Speaker 1: off this guy. At least I was smart enough to

543
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Speaker 1: try to do that. And this has probably been twenty

544
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Speaker 1: years ago. And so he said, so tell me about

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Speaker 1: what you do. And I told him what to do

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Speaker 1: and all that. He said, he said, you like to speak?

547
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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, yeah, I really do. I really enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Does it come easy for you? You feel like you

549
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: you get nervous about speaking or anything? I said, no, no,

550
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Speaker 1: not really. No. He said, been that way all your life.

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Speaker 1: I mean, did you ever get nervous about getting it

552
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Speaker 1: in front of people? I said, not really. No, nervous

553
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Speaker 1: about being on the radio, and I said and he

554
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: just sighed and he said, boy, and I've met a

555
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Speaker 1: lot of people like you, and you're always going to

556
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Speaker 1: be a problem. And I said, what do you mean?

557
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: He said, because it comes easy for you. And he says,

558
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: you've got a gift that you still need to continue

559
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Speaker 1: to work on. He said, but when I'm afraid of

560
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: he said, it's people like you. And I've seen it

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Speaker 1: time and time again. Because you know you can pull

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Speaker 1: it off, you'll stop preparing and he said, And then

563
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Speaker 1: what you'll do, You'll book yourself. Well, you'll be booked

564
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: so many places, you'll have no time to prepare. You

565
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: won't even be listening for God to give you a

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Speaker 1: new message. You won't want to learn anything new. You'll

567
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: have a handful of messages as you can do just

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Speaker 1: like that anytime, anywhere, and you know you can pull

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Speaker 1: it off. And he goes, and that's when you're going

570
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: to be less effective, he said. My advice to you

571
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Speaker 1: today and people like you because I've met you a

572
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Speaker 1: bunch of times, and you can have a great ministry

573
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: because God gave you those gifts for a reason. But

574
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: I would speak less and I would pray more. And

575
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, And I can tell you that the

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Speaker 1: times that I've overwhelmed myself twenty twenty one, that I

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Speaker 1: have overwhelmed myself, I can hear that man's voice in

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00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: the back of my head, and I'm saying, and here

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Speaker 1: I am, this is exactly what he told me not

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Speaker 1: to do. I am frantic, i am overwhelmed, and I'm

581
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Speaker 1: going to the next date and I'm looking in my

582
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Speaker 1: notebook for that message I've done a thousand times because

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Speaker 1: I know I can do it, And a lot of

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Speaker 1: times I wouldn't even have notes. I didn't even have

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Speaker 1: a notebook because I knew I could do that message

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Speaker 1: in my sleep. There's nothing wrong with having a message

587
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: you can do well, because it can be effective. But

588
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: it is wrong if you've stopped praying over it, and

589
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: you've stopped preparing and you just know and you're thinking

590
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: about it as you're walking up to the podium. That

591
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Speaker 1: is a problem. And that's what he warned me about.

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Speaker 1: And so I've tried to do better, and I can say,

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Speaker 1: you know, it still has happened, but his voice is

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00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: still there. I'm still convicted by it when I know

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Speaker 1: that I'm doing it. And so this is kind of

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Speaker 1: what Job is talking about, all those that think they

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Speaker 1: can deliver this and do all that. God can silence

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00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: you like that, and boy he can. And if we

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00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: ever get to where we're not doing it for him,

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00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: he'll shut us up pretty quick. So next he was

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Speaker 1: talking in twenty one, he said he pours contempt on

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Speaker 1: princes and he loosens the belts of the strong. Amos

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00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: talks about this in chapter five eight Daniel, remember we studied.

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Speaker 1: Daniel talks about this too. What he's saying here is

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Speaker 1: he disarms the mighty. Okay, if you think you're a

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Speaker 1: big deal because you're a prince, and you think you're

607
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: a big deal because you're strong, he will disarm the mighty.

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Speaker 1: Now this would include armies, military, these sort of things. Remember,

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Speaker 1: just because you think you're a mighty nation and you

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Speaker 1: think you have all this military and you have all

611
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: this strength, and you think you can go against God.

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00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: You think I'm so powerful now, I mean, God couldn't

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Speaker 1: stop me if he wanted to. He can stop you

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00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: just like that. Twenty two. He uncovers the depths out

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Speaker 1: of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. These are

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Speaker 1: those verses I told you about Amos and Daniel. They

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00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: get more into the light. Here, God lights up dark things.

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00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we are serving God. That has been put

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Speaker 1: on record. He allowed himself to be put on record

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Speaker 1: for literally saying, let there be light. And what did

621
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Speaker 1: the verse say after that? And there was light? And

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00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: there was He just spoke it. And so Job is

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Speaker 1: thinking about that. He must be aware of that. He

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00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: must have some knowledge of that, because he's saying, you

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00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: know what, in the situation I'm in right now, and

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00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: the darkness is all around me. The God that I

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00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: serve and the God that I've known, he could take

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00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: this darkness and he could turn it to light just

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Speaker 1: like that. And anywhere there is darkness of any kind,

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00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: he can always bring light. Twenty three. He makes nations great,

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Speaker 1: and he destroys them. He enlarges nations, and he leads

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00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: them away. He builds nations, he destroys nations. Something that

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Speaker 1: I think that we in the United States of America

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00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: always seem to think, Well, surely it's not us. He

635
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: does that to other nations, but we're so special. He

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00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: would never do that to us, because we've been so good.

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Speaker 1: We've done so many good things and we've served We

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Speaker 1: even have it on our currency and God us. We

639
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Speaker 1: don't act like it, but it's still on the money,

640
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Speaker 1: you know. And then we'll do things in society that

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Speaker 1: blaspheme him and then turn right around and actually say

642
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Speaker 1: God bless America. And I think sometimes he would love

643
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Speaker 1: to shout for the heavens based on what Why should

644
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Speaker 1: I bless you? Are you still leaning off your resumes,

645
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Speaker 1: still talking about things you've done throughout time? What are

646
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Speaker 1: you doing now? And then there's a lot of sin

647
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Speaker 1: we've had to which we've worked through in our in

648
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Speaker 1: our nation. But we've had we've had some good moments too.

649
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Speaker 1: God's usually to do some good things. We rebelled against him,

650
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Speaker 1: We've done some bad things. You know, I'm not afraid.

651
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Speaker 1: You know, we need to tell our whole history, good,

652
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Speaker 1: bad and ugly. But the bigger question is, even when

653
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Speaker 1: we're wrong, do we correct it? Do we repent? Do

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Speaker 1: we turn from the things that we did wrong? Have

655
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Speaker 1: we have we put him in his proper place? Or

656
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Speaker 1: are we like most human beings unto them when we're scared.

657
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Speaker 1: That's the problem in that with prosperity, it's all gone it.

658
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Speaker 1: We just can't seem to handle it. We just don't

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Speaker 1: do real good with it. You know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: times when we ask God for prosperity, the very reason

661
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Speaker 1: he doesn't give it to us is because it would

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Speaker 1: destroy us. I love you too much to give you that,

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Speaker 1: you know. I look back at things that I wanted

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Speaker 1: and things that I didn't get, and I have as

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Speaker 1: I get older, I'm understanding and thanking God for not

666
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Speaker 1: giving it to me because I would have made a

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Speaker 1: mess of it. It would have destroyed me. I thought

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Speaker 1: I could handle things that he knew I couldn't. And

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Speaker 1: then there's things that I didn't think I could handle,

670
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Speaker 1: and I couldn't, but he showed me that he could.

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Speaker 1: So twenty four. He takes away understanding from the chiefs

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Speaker 1: of the people of the earth and makes them wonder

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Speaker 1: in a pathless waste. God seize the leaders, not just

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Speaker 1: the nations, and they're all under his control. Hmmm. Again,

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Speaker 1: that's another thing we have to think about, don't we.

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Speaker 1: So wasn't it The bad ones are under his control?

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Speaker 1: You better believe it. The Bible tells us what He

678
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Speaker 1: puts them all on where they are? Wait, man, he

679
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Speaker 1: puts the bad ones there? He does? Why would he

680
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Speaker 1: do that? I can give you a simplistic point of

681
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Speaker 1: view on that some Calhoun County. Now it's much deeper

682
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Speaker 1: than this, but I can give you some Calhoun County.

683
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Speaker 1: I will say that he puts leaders in positions sometimes

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Speaker 1: to bless people, and he puts leaders in positions sometimes

685
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Speaker 1: to punish people. But he put them all there. May

686
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Speaker 1: or will be done. Okay, this leader was my will?

687
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Speaker 1: Really would it like to have maybe run that by

688
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Speaker 1: what you'd run that by? Me. But usually we get

689
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Speaker 1: the leaders that we deserve. But there's also what there's

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Speaker 1: also other things. I don't like this. I wish it

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Speaker 1: wasn't true. I wish that the church didn't perform so

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Speaker 1: well under duress, but it does. Have you ever been

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Speaker 1: around people that live under persecution versus us, there's so

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Speaker 1: much more solid than we are. I mean, they they

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Speaker 1: don't even breathe without thinking about Jesus. And we have

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Speaker 1: to we have to have something bad happen to even

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Speaker 1: think about it. But see, every day for them, they

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Speaker 1: don't know where, they don't know when somebody's gonna come

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Speaker 1: in the door and arrest everybody. They don't know where

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Speaker 1: they're gonna find their next meal unless God provides it.

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Speaker 1: Can Can you imagine going into these kind one of

702
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Speaker 1: these churches that's planted somewhere and walking in and asking

703
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Speaker 1: them what their budget is. They'll be like, what we

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Speaker 1: pray to God for for everybody to get some food

705
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Speaker 1: this week? You know. I mean, like you and I

706
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Speaker 1: were just talking about. I found it, you know, without

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Speaker 1: somebody coming along. We had a pastor. I just found

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Speaker 1: about that. We all got together and tried to help,

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Speaker 1: you know, because we're all so overly blessed. And I

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Speaker 1: remember him saying, it would have taken us twenty years

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Speaker 1: to do this, But you know what, if that's what

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Speaker 1: it would taken, they would have just done it for

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Speaker 1: twenty years. So they got what they wanted, something we

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Speaker 1: could have and like that, and we think that we're

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Speaker 1: closer to God than they are, and we always think

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Speaker 1: that we come up into their world and think we

717
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Speaker 1: have so much to give them, when really they have

718
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Speaker 1: so much to give us, because they're the real deal.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of us are still in this

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Speaker 1: situation that if God took away everything you had today,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if you continue to serve him. They've already

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Speaker 1: passed that test. If you still have everything you need,

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Speaker 1: you hadn't passed that test yet, And maybe God won't

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Speaker 1: put you to give you that test, but they already

725
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Speaker 1: passed it. They're already beyond. You know, I gotta I

726
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Speaker 1: gotta make sure this s don't become more important to

727
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Speaker 1: me than God is, because it's just so gone wonderful.

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Speaker 1: They don't really have that problem. They have found God

729
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Speaker 1: to be better than anything they have, and they have

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Speaker 1: a joy and a peace that is supernatural because we've

731
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Speaker 1: become so jaded on what we think is the key

732
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Speaker 1: to peace and joy, and we couldn't be more wrong.

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Speaker 1: So many things that we call blessings are obstacles and distractions.

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Speaker 1: If we went to God and said, thank you for

735
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Speaker 1: that blessing, he goes, oh, I didn't give that to you.

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Speaker 1: That's something you dook that's actually been an issue between

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Speaker 1: you and me. I would have never given it to you.

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Speaker 1: And so that's the thing that he's saying. He saying,

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Speaker 1: Look at the end of it all, all of this

740
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Speaker 1: knowledge and all of these leaders, God either puts them

741
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Speaker 1: there or he takes them away. We make a bit

742
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Speaker 1: deal out of them. To God, he could have them

743
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Speaker 1: wandering around on a pathless waste, with no direction whatsoever.

744
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Speaker 1: When are we gonna stop being so unimpressed with God

745
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Speaker 1: and so impressed with people. Job's coming to the realization,

746
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Speaker 1: why do we think these people are such a big deal.

747
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Speaker 1: But let's be honest, most people, if we said we

748
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Speaker 1: got a tent set up, we gotta, we gotta you've

749
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Speaker 1: never heard of him, never, It has no name whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: He loves the Lord. He's coming to preach, and we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna have we're gonna we're gonna get in there

752
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Speaker 1: and we're just gonna worship God this Tuesday. And we

753
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Speaker 1: at six thirty and we're just gonna unpack the word

754
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Speaker 1: of God. Are you in versus Hey, a real popular

755
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Speaker 1: politician is gonna be doing a banquet. Now it's gonna

756
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Speaker 1: cost you four hundred dollars a play to be there.

757
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: Which one would you go to? H And that's the problem.

758
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Speaker 1: And and he said, we're seeing these people in the

759
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Speaker 1: wrong way. Do they serve a purpose? Yes? Should we participate, sure?

760
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Speaker 1: Should we elevate? No? But we do we here? How

761
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Speaker 1: many you've been around somebody that the way that they

762
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Speaker 1: treat someone that the world's deemed important versus someone the

763
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Speaker 1: world doesn't deem important. You ever, you ever watched their

764
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Speaker 1: personality change? Adrian Rogers uh said it? And it's a

765
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: crazy convicting. If you want to know a man's true

766
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Speaker 1: character our woman, watch the way they treat people that

767
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Speaker 1: can't do anything for them. True. So uh next in

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Speaker 1: twenty five they grope in the dark without light. He

769
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Speaker 1: makes them stagger like a drunken man. How foolish are

770
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Speaker 1: we to sometimes think? I bet God's impressed with me?

771
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: I bet he just since Vegas says we're bad. Well,

772
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: there's some popular worship songs right now that seem to

773
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Speaker 1: suggest that that he's just enamored with us. He just

774
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Speaker 1: said he can't get enough of us. And so what

775
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Speaker 1: you're seeing here does he love us? Yeah? Yeah, sure

776
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Speaker 1: he's Shawn. That hasn't he? Does he worship us? No,

777
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Speaker 1: He's the only one worthy of worship, and we seem

778
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Speaker 1: to worship everything but him. And the last analogy, Job says,

779
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Speaker 1: all these people were impressed with compared to God, they

780
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Speaker 1: just grope around in the dark without light. They stagger

781
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Speaker 1: like drunken men. Now you're thinking, what's the takeaway from everything?

782
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 1: We've hit some things that we can apply, but there's

783
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: something bigger going on here and we're done. There's something

784
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: bigger going on here. And it really blew me away

785
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Speaker 1: when it hit me when I was studying this from

786
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Speaker 1: especially from verse thirteen on, Job has done a glowing

787
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: tribute to the majesty and the might and the wisdom

788
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Speaker 1: of God. No complaint, he has an he's mad upset.

789
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: We know this. He's distraught, he doesn't know what's going on. Hey,

790
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: we're in chapter twelve, Okay, he's been at this a

791
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: while and you would think all he's mad at his friends.

792
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Speaker 1: He's really mad. He's really about to go off on

793
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: God and instead in his time of despair, and he

794
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Speaker 1: and his friends that are giving him bad advice in

795
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: bad theology, and listen, this is takeaway. Take away. You've

796
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 1: heard me say. This job is doing what we should

797
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Speaker 1: tell each other and people that are not here that

798
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Speaker 1: we know, and those of you out there, and a

799
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Speaker 1: time of despair when you get down to the brink

800
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Speaker 1: and you're like, I don't know how much longer I

801
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: can go cling to what you know about God. And

802
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: what Job just did is he rocked back and he says,

803
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about the majesty, the might

804
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: and the wisdom of God. You don't hear complaining here,

805
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 1: and he's reminding his friends of the same thing. So

806
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: when we have everybody's attention, and oh how I wish

807
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: it wasn't true see us Lewis, we love you, buddy.

808
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: He said it best. He said, pain and suffering is

809
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 1: God's megaphone for a sleeping world. I just talked to

810
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Speaker 1: a guy yesterday. It was child is with the Lord,

811
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Speaker 1: and I said, you got everybody's attention. Glorify the Lord.

812
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Speaker 1: Everybody's watching to see if you'll turn on him, to

813
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Speaker 1: see if you'll lose your faith. And this was a

814
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Speaker 1: man of faith. They're all watching like never before. I've

815
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: told you all this a thousand times, and sometimes I

816
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: have to be careful that it doesn't make me bitter,

817
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Speaker 1: because I finally have got any difficulty in my life.

818
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: I finally have got it in the proper place. And

819
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Speaker 1: the proper place is this. Lord, forgive me that I

820
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Speaker 1: am so sinful that it takes this for me to

821
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Speaker 1: be right with you. This is on me. It's not

822
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Speaker 1: on you, it's not on anybody else. This is what

823
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Speaker 1: you've decided it takes for me. So people always say

824
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Speaker 1: you get angry with God. Nope, do you get angry

825
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Speaker 1: with other people? Yeah? I do. But most of all,

826
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Speaker 1: I'm disgusted that I'm that simple, that that's what God

827
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Speaker 1: deemed is necessary for me to be in the right

828
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Speaker 1: relationship with Him to be the most effective. And I

829
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Speaker 1: will tell you that been a follower of Jesus since

830
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, I have had an opportunity to stand

831
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Speaker 1: in front of a lot of people, and without fail

832
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Speaker 1: every person who ever comes up to encourage me and say,

833
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Speaker 1: you and your wife's ministry has meant a lot to me.

834
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Speaker 1: And there's two things that have impacted me more than

835
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Speaker 1: anything else. With your own flesh and blood over God's

836
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: standard and the death of your son. They never mentioned

837
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Speaker 1: anything else. You know why, because when the rubber meets rode,

838
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: that's when they start looking and say, let's see if

839
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Speaker 1: these people are real. Now does the other stuff matter?

840
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Speaker 1: Of course it does, of course it does. You want

841
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Speaker 1: to be good teachers, you want to keep having people,

842
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: you want to keep making disciples. All that matters, and

843
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Speaker 1: it's important. I'm just simply telling you that when you're

844
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Speaker 1: in the difficulty, they're paying attention to us more so

845
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Speaker 1: than any other time. And maybe sometimes we have to

846
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Speaker 1: do what job just did and be reminded of who

847
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Speaker 1: we know God is. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today,

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Speaker 1: thank you for this incredible message, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: these men in the room and how much they've meant

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Speaker 1: to me, Lord, and what an encouragement they are. And

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Speaker 1: thanks to those men and women who take the time

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Speaker 1: every week and on a regular basis to be with

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Speaker 1: us to walk through your holy Word of God, and

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Speaker 1: they're encouraging emails and how they are there to encourage

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Speaker 1: as well. If you're out there and today is maybe

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Speaker 1: the day for you, and you said, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just need some more information. I need to follow up

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Speaker 1: on the things I've heard. You can absolutely reach out

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Speaker 1: to me Rick at Burgessmanistries dot com and I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to help you any where I can. And if it's

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Speaker 1: something that is more in line with what my wife

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Speaker 1: can do, I'll be sure you connect connect you with

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Speaker 1: her too. Lord. I just pray you be with us

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Speaker 1: as we leave today, and your holy name we pray

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Speaker 1: Amen