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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study. It's active in here.

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Speaker 1: We got Pentecostals in here today ready to go. So

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Speaker 1: back from vacation hopefully and looking at the numbers, at

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Speaker 1: least on the video side, I don't see the numbers

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Speaker 1: of you did go back and pick up parts of

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Speaker 1: this study that you missed last week, which is great.

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Speaker 1: We're studying the Book of Job. My name's Rick Burgess.

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Speaker 1: If you're new to what we're doing, and I'm a

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Speaker 1: host of the Rick Burgess Show. That's my day job

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Speaker 1: during the week. You can find those to tals at

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Speaker 1: Rick burgesshow dot com. But here director for Themanchurch dot

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Speaker 1: com and there is a lot going on. What is

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Speaker 1: themanchurch dot com if you're new. We are a resource

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Speaker 1: hub for men's ministry. Bottom line, we want to come

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Speaker 1: alongside your church, your community, and your men's ministry and

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Speaker 1: help you with resources designed to reach in disciple men.

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Speaker 1: As we said many many times, there's been an attempt

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Speaker 1: to try to reach in disciple men many times with

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Speaker 1: the resources and an approach that really was designed for

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Speaker 1: women and children. Nothing wrong with that. Women and children

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Speaker 1: should be discipled and we should be providing resources for

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Speaker 1: women and children, but you can never reach and disciple

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Speaker 1: of man using resources and an approach designed for women

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Speaker 1: and children, because men and women and children are equal

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Speaker 1: in value, no question about that, but beautifully distinct. So

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Speaker 1: that's been something though that has people been talking about

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Speaker 1: with Men's Ministry long long, long before we were ever created.

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Speaker 1: But we decided to stop talking about it and maybe

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Speaker 1: just do something about it. So we provide resources. We

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Speaker 1: have forty week curricula. We have number six coming out

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Speaker 1: in the month of August, so whenever you're catching this,

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Speaker 1: it will be coming out before August is over. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be based on the book of acts called

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Speaker 1: the Standard. How the Standard goes up on everything after Pentecost,

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Speaker 1: and we go through forty weeks and eight different things

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Speaker 1: that you see the Standard eyes on after Pentecosts. So

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Speaker 1: we have six total forty week curricula. We also have

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Speaker 1: individual resources for men in the form of thirty one

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Speaker 1: day and forty day devotionals and books, and our first

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Speaker 1: ever full length book was released this year called Men

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Speaker 1: Don't Run in the Rain. You can pick that up

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Speaker 1: wherever you get books if you want to. And we

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Speaker 1: have somebody here holding up here for the Wednesday Bible

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Speaker 1: study right now, and he's a lot like we tried

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Speaker 1: to write it. I wanted to write it in this way.

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Speaker 1: He said. It's the first book that he's read since

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Speaker 1: that was good. So and he said it was much

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Speaker 1: more gripping than Run Dick, Run, Run Dick and Jane books.

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Speaker 1: And he said, and almost as gripping as Mary had

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Speaker 1: a little lamb. So that's good. So, yeah, it is

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Speaker 1: designed that. I actually did an interview with a podcast

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Speaker 1: this week and the guy said, you know, I've read

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Speaker 1: this book and it's definitely written. He told the men

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Speaker 1: to catch his podcast. If you've never read a book

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Speaker 1: this one. So there you go. So we designed it

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Speaker 1: that way, and it's I said, but somebody, I said, well,

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Speaker 1: I had to do great topics my dad and Jesus.

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Speaker 1: So if you can't get excited about that, then I

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Speaker 1: can't help. So we are in the book of job.

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Speaker 1: That's where we are right now. If we can help

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Speaker 1: you anyway, will you men's ministry, come see us at

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Speaker 1: the manchurch dot com. And if you're looking to plug in,

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Speaker 1: look under events if there's a gathering going on, because

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Speaker 1: we do high challenge with the gatherings and then high

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Speaker 1: equipping with the curriculum. If you see a gathering in

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Speaker 1: your city or near your city, then they're likely offering

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Speaker 1: you an opportunity to plug into the curriculum too. Find

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Speaker 1: those at the manchurch dot com. And there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of those going on right now. But we're in the

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Speaker 1: Book of Job. We're going to actually do twenty five

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Speaker 1: and we'll get both of those done. And you can

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Speaker 1: go ahead and open your Bible to Job chapter twenty

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Speaker 1: five and we'll open in a word of prayer and

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Speaker 1: we'll jump right in. Thank you, Lord for the gifts

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Speaker 1: of rest last week. That's your example. When you became

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Speaker 1: pray amen. Okay, so what's going on here? If you've

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Speaker 1: So so Bill Dad will not thankfully in his time

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Speaker 1: is the reason why Rick Donna do this again. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's the reason why we need to be very careful,

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Speaker 1: I think, because what Bill Dad says about God is

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Speaker 1: what God has said about himself. So let's not let's

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Speaker 1: like somehow God is looking to us for some help,

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Speaker 1: So we should never say he's anything other than a

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Speaker 1: clear that he's a God of peace and a God

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Speaker 1: the late Steve Farrar, God rest his soul, and I

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Speaker 1: actually under God's control. So so take note of that.

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Speaker 1: So in verse three, Bill Dad says, is is there

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Speaker 1: very We're gonna get more of these from Job too,

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Speaker 1: goes on. God is powerful. Uh. He he is the

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Speaker 1: is universal. Uh. This is this is kind of Bill

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Speaker 1: It's universal. All this is true. We're not gonna hear

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Speaker 1: The big question is why is he he going? You know,

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Speaker 1: that's that is a legitimate question. So and then he

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Speaker 1: He's now getting into human failure at being right. Be careful,

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Speaker 1: Bill Dad is warning correctly. Of course, he all as

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Speaker 1: we all should do, including your teacher. Right now. I

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Speaker 1: Bill Dad's making a point that job needs to hear. Sure,

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Speaker 1: he's reflecting, maybe he's under conviction. He saying you know,

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Speaker 1: and plentifully declared sound knowledge? And I love this? He goes,

427
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Speaker 1: Not only have you failed me physically? Okay? Not only

428
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Speaker 1: have you just not helped me when I had a

429
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: hard time standing, you have failed me intellectually. I'm asking

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Speaker 1: you what wisdom have you passed along to me? Is

431
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,719
Speaker 1: there anything you've passed along to me that has been helpful?

432
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: And of course the rhetorical answer is no. And he's

433
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Speaker 1: making sure that they hear this and then get then

434
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 1: we get to then we get to to four. I'm sorry. Three,

435
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: how you have counseled him who has no wisdom and

436
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: plentifully declared and sound knowledge? And then four with those help,

437
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 1: with those help have you uttered words? And whose breath

438
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 1: has come out of you, I'd like to know here.

439
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: So you haven't helped me physically, you haven't helped me intellectually,

440
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: and I'd like to know this. I don't know what

441
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 1: your source is with this approach that you've taken today.

442
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: But it's not God because there's nothing you guys have

443
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: done that was done the way it should have been done.

444
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: And your information and your actions are so lacking. I'd

445
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 1: really like to know exactly where they came from. What

446
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: is your source? So he's made us, he took a

447
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: few shots of his friends. Now we're getting to five.

448
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 1: Now he's going to talk about God's absolute control and

449
00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: this is going to go all the way through first

450
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: four team God's absolute control. What I said a minute

451
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: ago from ferrar Job seems to abruptly launch into this.

452
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: Nobody knows why he went so quick. Uh, it's it's

453
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: really a really magnificent hymn about God, and it's it's

454
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: it sings of the actual powers of God, reminds him

455
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: you know of who God is? Now a lot of

456
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna hear right here when we get to

457
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: the point where God actually faces Job, he's gonna hear

458
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 1: God talk about these same things. So he does get

459
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 1: these things you said about me were right, probably should

460
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Speaker 1: have applied them. How many of you have known a

461
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: lot that God said, you just didn't apply it, right.

462
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: That's sure that it's not for lack of knowledge, is it.

463
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: It's just that application is a tough part, isn't it.

464
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: And and so so let's start with five the dead

465
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: tremble under the waters and their inhabitants. He is He

466
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: rules over not only heaven, but he also rules over

467
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 1: the depths of the water. There is nowhere in creation

468
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: that God is not. Okay, so he's acknowledging that, and

469
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: you know, because we talk a lot about the heavens,

470
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Speaker 1: but he's also completely over the deep as well. And

471
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Speaker 1: keep in mind, while that's kind of a biggie, one

472
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Speaker 1: of the things that you notice, and we talked about

473
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Speaker 1: this when we study the revelation is and there's gonna

474
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Speaker 1: be some of the things you see on when God

475
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: starts giving his resume. You know, one of the things,

476
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: and I know we're not saying that Job and his

477
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: friends are Hebrews, because you know they're not. But but

478
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: when you look at the Hebrews, one of the things

479
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 1: that you found about them is they were terrified of

480
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 1: the water, terrified of the sea. It represented danger and uncertainty.

481
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: And even when they were out there, you know, fishing

482
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: and things like that. There's a reason Jesus used the

483
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: storm to tell who he was. There's a reason in

484
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: the revelation that John says he noticed, you know that

485
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: the sea was no more. Uh, there's that. That's not

486
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: just that, there's a reason for that. The sea always

487
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: represented even if you go back before human beings were created,

488
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: there was darkness over the water, and you know, and

489
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 1: and all this. So it's always been kind of a

490
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: leery thing. And here's what Job is saying. Look we

491
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: we even even the dead tremble under the waters, Okay,

492
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: that their inhabitants. No matter where you are, you do this.

493
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: And then he says, here's here's she ol again. Uh.

494
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: And of course this is that it says it's naked

495
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: before God. Now this is a badden I'm gonna I'm

496
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: gonna touch on that too. That's that's some myth, myth,

497
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: mythical beliefs of the day, has no covering. So we

498
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: we already know, which we studied over and over again.

499
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: He's saying that this place of the dead. God rules

500
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: over that. Uh. And and he says, you know, so

501
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: we know that, uh he rules also we know over

502
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: a baden. Now keep in mind a badden is local

503
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: mythology of the day. But and we see this word

504
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: a baden also show up, uh in the Revelation when

505
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: talking about with some of this the worst demons mem

506
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: when they were released. This this is used there again

507
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: when they are unleashed on the people, because he's going

508
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: to use mythology of the day. But the bottom line

509
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: is this we we must all give an account to God.

510
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: And this says and and and he is even above death,

511
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: and he's above destruction. You know, she ole is death,

512
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: that's the place of the dead. And then a baden

513
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: represents destruction. Okay, so he's saying, we all got to

514
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: face these things. But let me know, let me tell

515
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: you this, God is above all this. So again these

516
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: are things he's going to be told by God himself.

517
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: But apparently he already knows it. How many of you

518
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: know the promises and the truth of God, but you

519
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: still got to be reminded of them. Right, what do

520
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: we say anytime you go through a difficult time. We've

521
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: talked about this for years, cling to the promises of God,

522
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: cling to the things that you know, Job seems to

523
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: be doing that, but he still wants that one on one,

524
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: he wants that burning bush. Verse seven, he stretches out

525
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

526
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: Watch out, now here's some echoes of Genesis one. But

527
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: here again we're talking about pagan mythology and pagan mythology

528
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: the North, the North Mountains, we're supposed to be a

529
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: dwelling place of the little gy of gods. But Job says,

530
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: even this sacred mountain that you Pagan's worship, it was

531
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: created by God. It wasn't created by these faults gods.

532
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: You know, you've made this Northern Mountain some big mythological

533
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: place where your gods are. Well, I got news for you.

534
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: The very mountain you're looking at was created by the

535
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: God I serve. Uh he He's even even the Pagans

536
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: can't get away from the things that they choose to worship.

537
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: God created it. You know, even when you go to

538
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: the you know, earth worshippers and all this garbage. I mean,

539
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: they're still worshiping what God created. They're just skipping worshiping

540
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: the Creator. They're they're worshiping the created, which we all

541
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: got a little bit of that in us. Now, we

542
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: all got a little bit of that in us. You know.

543
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: It's and I told you this, and I remember this

544
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: so vividly. When I was standing on the Continental Divide.

545
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: We had gotten in snowmobiles. And this is back when

546
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: the kids were all. You know, I had so many

547
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: kids and they're everywhere and and and you think to yourself,

548
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: why did I take on this adventure? This is this

549
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: is this is crazy. And so we get up to

550
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: the Continental Divide and it was the It was really

551
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: the only time that I ever recalled that when I

552
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: Rick and Bubba, that Bubba and I have vacation together.

553
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: We only did that one time. Maybe there's a reason

554
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: we never did it again. I don't know, there was

555
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: so many kids and whatever, but but I remember we

556
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: were standing there and we're looking at the Continental Divide

557
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: and we're looking off that, you know, ten thousand feet

558
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: there in the Colorado Mountains, and you know, if snow

559
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: hits it, it goes this way, you know, heads of

560
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: that part of the hemisphere, it goes that way. Just amazing,

561
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: you know, and you know this goes to the Pacific,

562
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: this goes to the Atlantic, and we're looking at this

563
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: and I mean it's breath taking, breath taking. And I

564
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: remember that Bubba said I've never forgot it, and it

565
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: was so true. He goes and this is his throwaway.

566
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: I mean this, you ruz, we're seeing it in a

567
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: sind state. We're seeing it falling. You know, have you

568
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: ever been? I have you ever been? You know, we

569
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: love our farm and we've been down there before and

570
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: you think, man, just look at this glorious creation. And

571
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, it's a mosquito bite

572
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: you you know, look, you got a tick behind your ear.

573
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,719
Speaker 1: You know, you're like, okay, well this is falling. But

574
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: you know it looked it looked pretty good up to

575
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: the mosquitoes got over here, you know. And uh, but

576
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: so that keep in mind, even the beauty that we see, guys,

577
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: this is nothing. You know, does anybody remember the first

578
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: time you watched a football game in HD, you know,

579
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh wow, that that this is. This

580
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: looks a lot different, except for my dad who never

581
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: claimed it looked different and kept the TV always had

582
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: but but the uh, but I've never but you you

583
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: didn't argue with Dad on things like this. I really

584
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: don't see any difference in it. What you know, I might,

585
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: but but the but I will say four D is

586
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: a little weird because four D I feel like I'm

587
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: actually standing in the place where these people are putting

588
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: the show on. I feel like I'm watching a play.

589
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: That's that's almost too weird. But a sporting event is

590
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: you know, you you feel like you're there. Well, I

591
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: think we've been looking at creation without HD and and

592
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: when guys do I just want you all to know, Okay,

593
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 1: even when it's attempted to be described to us in

594
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: the scriptures, it just we can't do it. It's too limiting.

595
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: You remember when Jesus was trying that. The disciples tried

596
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: to push him on tell us about it, and he

597
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: just finally went, I'd have to use words you don't

598
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: even understand. I mean, the descriptive words of what we're

599
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: going to see when it's imperfection are not available to us.

600
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: The language we have right now, it's just we don't

601
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: have a word. It's not good enough. So just know

602
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: that what you're seeing is going to be refined by fire.

603
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: What you see on its best day. The most beautiful

604
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: place you've ever been on this planet is his throwaway.

605
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: He's gonna get rid of this and gonna show you

606
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: what it was supposed to be. Like, well, what a

607
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: day that will be. So so anyway, you see that

608
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: Job is giving God the props, no doubt about this.

609
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,959
Speaker 1: And then you go to eight. He binds up the

610
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: waters and his thick clouds, and the clouds and the

611
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: cloud is not split open under them. This was really interesting.

612
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: I remember the first time read this when I was

613
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: studying over the last week or so, I was like,

614
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: what in the world is this? Well, let me tell

615
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: you what he's talking about. It's it's pretty advanced. Uh

616
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: you know, right now James Spam will walk in and go,

617
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: I know exactly what he's talking about. I mean, it

618
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: really is some some meteorology observations. What they knew even

619
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: in that day, by this verse and others is that

620
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: the clouds hold water. They knew that, and so what

621
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: what Job is saying. He's saying the clouds are water,

622
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: and water is heavier than a cloud, and but yet

623
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: water doesn't always fall from them. And so what he's

624
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: saying is I see these clouds and I know they're

625
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: thick with water, but they don't split open until he

626
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: says they can't in that in that cool. I mean,

627
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: that's a pretty advanced look at how weather forms. I

628
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: know these clouds are are vapor, I know their water,

629
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: but they don't always rain. And what he's saying is

630
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 1: God's even in control when the first drop falls. Even

631
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: if you said, boy, that cloud really looks like it's

632
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: full of rain, he said, well, it's not gonna drop too.

633
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,479
Speaker 1: He says it's okay to He says, go ahead and drop.

634
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: And so that's a pretty advanced look at clouds. But

635
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: he's making the point God controls even when the rain

636
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: comes nine he covers the face of the full moon

637
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: and spreads over it his cloud. God is completely control,

638
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: in control of the weather. He's completely controlled. Now, he's saying,

639
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: in the celestial phenomenon that's going on all around us, Okay,

640
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 1: when you look up in the cosmos and you see

641
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: the moon, that ain't any big deal. That light's nothing

642
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: compared to God, he says, When when you see all

643
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: the phenomenon going on, and you see shooting stars and

644
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: you see all these different things and galaxies, all these

645
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: things that you see he said it is nothing to

646
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: him because he spreads over it in his cloud. And

647
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: what he's saying there is that's he's in complete control.

648
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: And he says he can uncover the grave as well,

649
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: and that goes into verse six because he also can

650
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: cover the moon. So look at look that goes back

651
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: to six just a little bit that he's coming back

652
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: in and saying, you know that he see where it

653
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: says a baden has no covering. Now he says, he

654
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: covers the face of the full moon and he spreads

655
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: over like a cloud. And so he's talking about when

656
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: he talked about she ole and he's talking about a baden.

657
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: He says, not only can he uncover that, he can

658
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: then turn around and cover the moon if he wants to,

659
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: which we all know that to be true. Verse ten,

660
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: he has inscribed a circle on the face of the

661
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: waters and at the boundary between light and arkness. Now

662
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: here we go. God's gonna talk about this when when

663
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: job finally gets his meeting, which by the way, he

664
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 1: regrets pretty quick, okay, But when he gets his meeting

665
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: and after God tells him to show himself a man,

666
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: and then you hold what you got I'm not done.

667
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep going. Job tries to stop it pretty quick.

668
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: I don't hate to give that away, but God says, no,

669
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: you asked for it. So I'm going to finish. And

670
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: he's going to talk about this. And here's Job already

671
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: seeming to be aware that God separates the lighted world

672
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: above the ground from the unlit world underground and water

673
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: all this is his body of work. And what does

674
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 1: he tell Job in the speech if you've never read

675
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: it before, did you tell the water where to stop?

676
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: Will you feel real small with you? He goes, you

677
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 1: realize water could keep going. And when I said that's enough,

678
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: it stops. That's as far as you go. I put

679
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: the boundaries on the water. Can you do that? Job?

680
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: Of course, I've never tried it, but I don't think

681
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: I can. Uh so, uh but but but this is

682
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: He's good. This is gonna come back, this very thing

683
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: that Job is saying God's going to bring back and say,

684
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: I'd like to unpack that for you. And and Job

685
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: is acknowledging that God sets these boundaries between light and darkness,

686
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: and he sets the boundaries of the water, which is

687
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: a pretty incredible And then verse eleven, the pillars of

688
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: Heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke. Now now

689
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: here we got a little poetry going on from Job here.

690
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: This is kind of to me. Job has done better

691
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: on his descriptions here. I was much more impressed with

692
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: his look at weather and clouds and the cosmos. This

693
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: seems to be an attempt at thunder. It's not as

694
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: impressive as the other things that he's done. Uh, he's

695
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: been a little poetic here, but you'll see in the

696
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: next few verses he's gonna take on storms completely. This

697
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: seems to be the start of it. What he's talking

698
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: about here is you know, everything, including the weather when

699
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: you hear this thunder going on and all that that,

700
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: even these things that we're terrified of, the pillars of

701
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: heaven trembling, that's what it sounds like to us. But

702
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: they're astounded. They're more afraid of him than he is

703
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: of that, and we're terrified at these sounds. Look to

704
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: this day, I'm not a huge fan of thunder. I'm

705
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: not a big fan of thunder. I understand how it

706
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: occurs and all this kind of stuff. I don't like thunder.

707
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: I'd rather not be I don't like that of stuff

708
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: starts kicking around like that. But he says, even that thunder,

709
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: as concerned as you may be about it, you should

710
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: be more afraid of God than the thunder, because the

711
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: thunder answers to him. If he rebuts the thunder, guess

712
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: what it stops. Remember this now, this is so important

713
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: on the foreshadowing the member of the things that Jesus did.

714
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: These were not happenstance. Jesus didn't say I think I'll

715
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: calm a storm today and that are to be impressive. No. Remember,

716
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: these are Hebrews that are with him. They've studied all

717
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: of this, and they know from the Old Testament. They

718
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: know that the Old Testament says that God controls the weather.

719
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,879
Speaker 1: God calms a storm. Don't think that's the first time

720
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,959
Speaker 1: they'd ever seen that. What Jesus was saying is who

721
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: told you about God? Do y'all remember the part about

722
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: calming storms? Wat's this? I'm God? See he picked something

723
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: they already knew. Well, if you can calm the storm,

724
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 1: you must be God. Because we saw the sawmist talking

725
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: about this, We saw Job talking about this. We know

726
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: that God controls weather and can calm a storm, and

727
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 1: Jesus just did it. Why do you think the first

728
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: reaction from Peter was I repent. Hut, Hey, wow, you

729
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: just you just told the storm and it stopped. Who

730
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: is this? Yeah? So so he he got the message

731
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 1: pretty clear there. So twelve, by his power he stilled

732
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: the sea. There we go again, by his understanding, he

733
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: shattered Rehab. Now again, Rahab is not that's not the prostitute.

734
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: Rayhab is a mythical monster. Again that the Pagans always

735
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: talked about. It was in the city. The sea was,

736
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, stirred up, and it was it was. It

737
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: was crazy, and they were it was turmoil in the sea.

738
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: They would say, that's Rahab stirring up. To see the

739
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: sea monster out there, and uh, and you're gonna see

740
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: Leviathon kind of come into God's resume too. So they

741
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,959
Speaker 1: thought that Rahab, this mythical monster, was responsible for rough

742
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 1: rough seas. Uh. But anyway, fake or real. Uh, this

743
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: is what he's saying. And I love this job was saying,

744
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a real something in the

745
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 1: sea or it's something you made up. The scariest monster

746
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: that our minds could ever even fathom, would still answer

747
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: to God, he's still stronger than anything he would take.

748
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: If you're a monster you came up with. Rahab got

749
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: out there and stirred up the worst storm on the sea.

750
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: God could comment like that. So he knows that. And

751
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: again Jesus did that thirteen. By his wind, the heavens

752
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: were made fair. His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. So

753
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: when he gets into thirteen, he's like, God can clear

754
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: any weather, he can calm any sea whatsoever. And he's

755
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: also going as far as to say, if the sea

756
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: is stirring, Rahab's not causing it. God's causing it. Have

757
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: you ever thought about that? And you think, well, rick

758
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: Weather's kind of doing his own thing, now, isn't it.

759
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean, didn't God kind of set all this in motion?

760
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: This thing's falling, tornado ripping through town. God doesn't get

761
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 1: up every day and say tornado, hear hurricane. He didn't

762
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: do all that, does he? Well here's the thing. I

763
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: don't know about his automation, but here's what I do know.

764
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: He can certainly stop it. So for tornado hits your house,

765
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: you think God's helpless in that situation. Lord, please don't

766
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: let this tornado hit my house. But your will be done.

767
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus told me to say. And the house

768
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: is gone. So did God go. I was dealing with

769
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: a hurricane over here, and I didn't see that Calhoun

770
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: County tornado rip. I missed that one. No, you can.

771
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: You know this is that thing where human beings get

772
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: into these ridiculous conversations. You know, God, what? What? What?

773
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: Where is God in all this and where he's right

774
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: in the middle of it, even the bad stuff. Yes, guys,

775
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not working on making sure everything goes

776
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: well for us in this life. He's preparing us for

777
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: the next life. And part of the difficulties of life

778
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: and allowing storms that he can clearly come. Part of

779
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,919
Speaker 1: allowing that is preparing us for Heaven, is preparing us

780
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: for what's next, and it's refining us. It's producing steadfastness.

781
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: How about this, It's making us more reliable. God's been

782
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: turned on by us a lot. You know he's doing.

783
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have any more people around me that

784
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: haven't been vetted. I'm not having any more people going

785
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: out representing me that haven't been tested. I'm not gonna

786
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: have anybody with me that hasn't worshiped me in a storm.

787
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: Now there's gonna be times I'll take away the storm,

788
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: but I got to see you in the storm first.

789
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: Remember this a w tozer. There's not anyone we see

790
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: throughout scripture that God used in a mighty way that

791
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: he didn't first hurt thee. His own son was not

792
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: exempt from difficulty, and somehow we want him to exempt

793
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: us from it. Remember the Matthew seven again about the

794
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: two people building houses on the rock and on the sand,

795
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: storm hit both. One of them just survived, the other

796
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: one didn't because it was built on Jesus, but he

797
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,919
Speaker 1: still got hit by a storm. He didn't say, build

798
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: your house on the rock and there'll be no storm.

799
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: He said, built your house on the rock and you'll

800
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: survive the storm. That's a completely different statement. And so

801
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Job is talking about. He's saying, you know,

802
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,280
Speaker 1: he can calm anything he wishes, but sometimes he doesn't.

803
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean he can't. So then you start

804
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: getting into the the thing that I've often wondered, and

805
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: this is the way we are. And he has changed

806
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: me on this, he really has, and it's eye opening.

807
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: Can we stop with the we're always wanting to know

808
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: this why thing? You know? You know why? Why don't

809
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: we change that why and start going to God knowing

810
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 1: that he allowed something to happen, and maybe start instead

811
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: of asking him why he did that to us, why

812
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: don't we go to him and say, hey, you seem

813
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: to be wanting to be glorified in this. Show me

814
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: what you want me to do? You know? Can I

815
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: say this, and I'm not the first person say it.

816
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: Can can we come off this? Why did this happen

817
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: to me? Can I ask you a question? Why not you?

818
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: Why not me? Have y'all all lived so good that

819
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: nothing bad should ever happened to you? I have it.

820
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: It's God's grace and mercy that I'm much more surprised

821
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: by is how many times he hasn't allowed me to suffer? Right,

822
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: because I don't bring anything to the table. And Jobe's

823
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: gonna learn that before we're done, by the way, that

824
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: he really didn't bring anything to the table, no matter

825
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: how blameless and upright he was. Compared to other people,

826
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: he looked pretty good, you know, so, But that's not

827
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: that's not the standard, is it? So then we get

828
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 1: into into fourteen behold, these are but the outskirts of

829
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear

830
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: of him? But the thunder of his power? Who can understand?

831
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: We can barely take him in? Job says, when he

832
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 1: speaks through thunder, When he speaks through when that's only

833
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: a whisper? Anybody hear this? Later in the Bible, Elijah,

834
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: there's all this going on that looks impressive, and Elijah's

835
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: looking for God and all of it, and then what

836
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: do we hear? But he wouldn't in any of it.

837
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: He was allowing of it. That wasn't his voice. And

838
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: then his voice came as a whisper. Why have you

839
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: ever thought about that? Why whisper? What's much more intimate?

840
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: We see that that's pretty simple, but it's bigger than that.

841
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: All this racket that Elijah got to see was showing

842
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: how powerful God's voice is. His voice is so powerful

843
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: even with all that going on. To be heard, all

844
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 1: he had to do was whisper, how many of you

845
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 1: can whisper over something loud enough that we would still

846
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: hear you? For God, he doesn't even need to go

847
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: full volume. He's so powerful he can whisper over a storm,

848
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: and you still hear him. And don't forget one of

849
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: the biggest things in that moment, which is going to

850
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: happen for Job too. Everything Elijah was doing, God did

851
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: not tell him to do it. And God's question to Elijah,

852
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 1: you think, look at God coming in. He allowed Elijah

853
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: some rest, he gave him some food, took care of him,

854
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: loved him. He's about to get a well done. And

855
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: what does God say to Elijah? What are you doing here?

856
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you to run. I didn't tell you

857
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: to quit. You saw me destroy all these things. You

858
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: saw what I did with the prophets of bel You

859
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: stood there in trash, talk at how powerful I am.

860
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: And then a crazy woman says she's going to kill you.

861
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: And you've run off to hide like a little kid.

862
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be here. Now, do you go

863
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,919
Speaker 1: ahead and let Elijah retire? He did, but Elijah said

864
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: he wanted to retire, and God allowed it. But he

865
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: never told Elijah run off and get up in that

866
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: mountain and hot. And so Job's gonna have a similar

867
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: experience when he finally gets to talk to God. And

868
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: I want us to ask us a question. Right now,

869
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: all of us, is there anything going on in our

870
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: lives right now? And we're crying out to God to say,

871
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: to speak to us. I want to hear from you.

872
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: I want to hear from you. I hope that when

873
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: we cry out and say I want to hear from you,

874
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: I hope when He finally sai, that's something to us.

875
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: He doesn't say, what are you doing here? Have you

876
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: got yourself in this situation? What are you doing with her?

877
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: What are you doing at your job? What are you

878
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: doing at the church, what are you doing out here?

879
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: What are you doing in this place? What are you

880
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: doing involved in whatever? So we're going to see that

881
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: this whisper of his power, we mortals don't seem to

882
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 1: be in awe of God. Job says, when creation is happening,

883
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: we have no appreciation of its source. I've been guilty

884
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: of that. Now we'll say, there's a lot of times

885
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: that creation pushes me to God because I can see

886
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,879
Speaker 1: him so clear. As Paul points out about no one

887
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: having an excuse. But you know, there was an incredible

888
00:50:51,200 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: statement in chapter thirty eight, which is still head. You're

889
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: going to see y'ah weeh whisper to Job from a

890
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: storm it's coming. But then Isaiah fifty five, verses eight

891
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: through nine is what we're going to end on, because

892
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: Isaiah is summing up how Job feels right now. You know,

893
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 1: y'all know these verses are very very familiar. God speaking

894
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: to Isaiah. My thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are

895
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 1: my ways your ways. As heavens are higher than the earth,

896
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: so are my ways higher than yours? And my thoughts

897
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: are not your thoughts. That's what Job is reminding everybody

898
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: who's listening, and I think reminding himself. I don't know

899
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: what's going on here, but I have to remember that

900
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: God's bigger than me. Even though he says I still

901
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: want to talk to you, I still want to hear

902
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: directly from you. I have to remember, And boy, have

903
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: you ever clung to this before? My thoughts are not

904
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: your thoughts. Your ways are not my ways. As heaven

905
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: is higher than the earth, so are so are your ways,

906
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: Lord higher than mine? And sadly, on my best attempt

907
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: sadly on my best attempt, so many times, my thoughts

908
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: are not your thoughts because I can't. I can't with

909
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: this finite mind, I can't quite comprehend you, which is

910
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: what we do? What do we do? And I've said

911
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: this one hundred times and it drives me most days.

912
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't know everything about God. I don't. I couldn't

913
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: comprehend it. If he said, would you like for me

914
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: to tell you everything about me? I think my mind

915
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: would just start hurting and it would just start screaming

916
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: back to me like a car that doesn't have enough horsepower.

917
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: I can't make it. However, here's what we should do.

918
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: Have just acknowledged what Isaiah said and what Joe said.

919
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: Acknowledge that is truth. But listen to me, listen to him,

920
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: listen to me. Job didn't have this. I'm holding up

921
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: a Bible for those that are just listening. He does

922
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 1: not have this. This is the complete revelation we're told

923
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: at the end of this book that I'm holding. There's

924
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: nothing to add. Okay, I really believe that. I believe

925
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,760
Speaker 1: that if the Lord Jesus himself walked through that door,

926
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 1: first of all, is there a seat for me? Yes,

927
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: I would go there because I would I would move

928
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: remove myself from here. Okay, he has the one mic,

929
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: not me, And I really believe that if some of us,

930
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: probably I mean I could be this guy. I think

931
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: definitely like job. I think that if he sat down,

932
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: I would let Lord you've joined the Wednesday Bault study.

933
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, yeah, I'm back. I'm about to

934
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: gather the church to myself. I thought I'd stop by

935
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: and see y'all and uh, we're like, man, this is great.

936
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: And I bet hands for some of you idiots like me,

937
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 1: I would have want to asked. We got questions, just

938
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 1: Q and a time. I believe hands might shoot up

939
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 1: and Jesus will say what is all this? And we say, Jesus,

940
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,280
Speaker 1: you here, you are a try youn God. We're talking

941
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: to the sun. Yes, yes, you are all authority in

942
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: hav An ether has been given to me. If you

943
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 1: see me, you see the Father. You know I've covered

944
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: that before, Yes you have. We have so many questions,

945
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: so many things we'd like for you to tell us.

946
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: I really believe he would if I left this here

947
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: when I was running, he would pick it up and go,

948
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: you've had this for over two thousand years. I don't

949
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: have anything, Dad, So do you know it? I mean,

950
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: you want to have a conversation with God here it is.

951
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: You want to hear what God thinks about everything, what

952
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: his standard is. It's here. You want to know about redemption?

953
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: It's here? You want to know why you need to

954
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: be redeemed? It's here? Do you want to know who

955
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: he is? He's revealed himself knowing that this is about

956
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: all we can comprehend. And it's a lot. But I

957
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 1: will tell you this from experience as a c student

958
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 1: from Calhoun County, Alabama, which is not a special place.

959
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: But my Lord and Savior came from a place they

960
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: said wasn't special either. It ain't about the place, But

961
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: I know that there's things in here not an overly

962
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:41,280
Speaker 1: educated guy can fully understand as he intended. And those

963
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: things are enough to convict me for the rest of

964
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: my days. And the things I don't understand, I just

965
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: keep pursuing them, and because I want to know everything

966
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,439
Speaker 1: that God will allow me to know, and it's made

967
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:00,320
Speaker 1: possible for me to know. There's nothing about How y'all

968
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: can we sorry about this? Here I go by, I'm

969
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: about to bang an old gone How in the world

970
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,720
Speaker 1: I'm as guilty of as anybody. How can we deem

971
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 1: knowledge of anything more important than the word of God?

972
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: I know my football team forward him backward and I

973
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: don't know this, so I spent that time studying that

974
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: and spend no time. I just still have time for this.

975
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: But I've got time for all that. And I'm not

976
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: saying that this thing is bad, but it's bad if

977
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: you don't know this, but you do know that this

978
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: is bad. If you know your hobbies more than you

979
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: know this, that's bad. Nothing wrong with knowing about your

980
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:44,879
Speaker 1: hobbies as long as you know this. Everything that we

981
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 1: enjoy which is fine as long as it's not sinful,

982
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: they really can't be enjoyed if you don't have this

983
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: right because you're always thinking to yourself, why am I

984
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: more into this than I am in the Word of God?

985
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: And you know what happens that even the gift that

986
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: can be enjoyable, you can't really enjoy it because you

987
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: keep thinking, I care more about this than I do

988
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: the Word of God. Once you learn the word of God,

989
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: you know what you I will tell you this. The

990
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: things that I used to worship other than God, they

991
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: are actually more enjoyable to me now that I don't

992
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: worship him anymore. Still do them? Not all of them,

993
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: because I've lost interest in some of it. You know,

994
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: some of the stuff he's so overwhelming your interests for

995
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: it just goes away. But the things that I still

996
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: enjoy and are perfectly fine with God, as long as

997
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: I balance them, I enjoy them more when I stop

998
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: worshiping when it went to God to me anymore, there's

999
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: actually a lot more enjoyable. I mean, how can anybody

1000
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: let their life be ruined by the score of a

1001
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: ball game, by the bass that got off the hook,

1002
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: by the big buck that walked in from the left

1003
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: instead of the right, and you just got to look

1004
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: at him, And that bothers us more than not being

1005
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: right with God. As long as you're right with God,

1006
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: that stuff will be fine, but it won't rule you.

1007
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: And when it doesn't rule you, it's a blessing. A

1008
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: lot of these things that we call blessings are nothing

1009
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: but distraction. So be careful move them back to a

1010
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: blessing by no longer letting them be a distraction. Let's pray, Lord,

1011
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for today. Thank you for these

1012
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: men and how much they mean to me. Lord, there's

1013
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: such an encouragement to me. I'm glad I don't have

1014
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: friends like Job. I'm so thankful for them and the

1015
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: encouragement that they are. Will you bless them? Lord, Please

1016
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: your hand be upon them. Thank you for all who

1017
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: have come here today and made the study of your

1018
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: word a priority. And Lord, thank you for how you

1019
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: continue to mold me into something that I can't be

1020
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: through the power of your holy Word. Forgive me for

1021
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: where I fail you. I repent of all sin and

1022
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: anything that has ever come between you and me. And

1023
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: I thank you for the gift of your grace and

1024
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: your mercy and redemption through you, your son Jesus, who

1025
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: paid the price that I should have paid. And may

1026
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: he never look upon me, or us, or anybody who's

1027
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,959
Speaker 1: been redeemed, and never see that his grace was in vain.

1028
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: We're not being obedient to try to earn redemption because

1029
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: we can't do it. But may our obedience glorify you

1030
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: as a gift of gratitude for a gift that we

1031
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: can't pay. In your name, we pray Amen.