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

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Speaker 1: In case we have not met a host of the

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Speaker 1: Rick Burgess Show. That is my day job. I do

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Speaker 1: Rick burgesshow dot com. It's a much different experience than this,

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Speaker 1: even though we certainly don't shy away from this. Somebody

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Speaker 1: asked me one time. They're saying, well, you do a

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Speaker 1: radio show. Of course, now that means radio, podcasts, apps,

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Speaker 2: We do.

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Speaker 1: Content providers is what we are now. But I was

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Speaker 1: a kid who always wanted to be on the radio.

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Speaker 1: And then somebody said, well, so you do Christian radio,

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, no, I'm a Christian who does radio.

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Speaker 1: So do we deal with a biblical worldview? We do,

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Speaker 1: but completely secular show.

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Speaker 2: I hate that.

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Speaker 1: Word, but you understand what I mean, and it's heard

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Speaker 1: on various radio stations and various platforms. We try to

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Speaker 1: kind of take the notion that our Lord and Savior

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Speaker 1: that an easy line. It isn't And do we always

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Speaker 1: get it right? No, But as our intention to go

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Speaker 2: So I just want you to know what you're getting into.

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Speaker 1: If you go to the day job, there's not as

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Speaker 1: that sets up moments for this, just like so many

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Speaker 1: people that found this Wednesday Bible study because they first

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Speaker 1: men's strategy. It continues on a decade later, and then

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Speaker 1: We provide the strategy, we provide the speakers, we provide

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Speaker 1: the curriculum, we provide individual resources for men. All that

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Speaker 1: you can find by going to Themanchurch dot Com. You

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Speaker 1: Bible studies there, so if you desire to do that,

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Speaker 1: so go back and catch up on this series on

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Speaker 1: job or any of the past studies. If you would

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Speaker 1: We have conferences that we do as well, which can

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Speaker 1: you can get a sign copy up until December the sixteenth,

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Speaker 1: of the newest resource that we put out as far

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Speaker 1: as a book called Men Don't Run in the Rain.

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Speaker 1: It's a book that I wrote about my earthly father

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Speaker 1: and how many times he reflected my heavenly father. And

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Speaker 1: are finishing the provocative.

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Speaker 2: Let's open first in a word of prayer. Lord, thank

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Speaker 2: and your name we pray Amen.

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Speaker 1: So this is really what it's all about. We get

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Speaker 1: God explains himself as best as we can understand. Now,

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Speaker 1: brother in Christ, and that's Kirk Cameron. Watching the conversation

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Speaker 1: The gap between us and God is enormous, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we'll go catch that one if you haven't

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Speaker 1: This is what we're gonna hear. Job's now he's heard

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Speaker 1: suffering in a different way, doesn't it. Look you've heard

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Speaker 1: me talk about this, and I've gone through some suffering

439
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Speaker 1: again recently. There's nothing quite like it. I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: It's not enjoyable. I don't ask for it, but unfortunately

441
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Speaker 1: I need it because it strains me out every time.

442
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Speaker 1: And you go, what, you got some big thing you

443
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Speaker 1: need to be straightened out about. No, but I got

444
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Speaker 1: a lot of little things I need to be straightened

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Speaker 1: out about. And they anger God just as much as

446
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Speaker 1: the biggies, because he wants me to be completely right

447
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Speaker 1: with him. He wants me completely submissive to him. He

448
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Speaker 1: wants me completely in line with him. And what he

449
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Speaker 1: does if I start getting out of the trail a

450
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Speaker 1: little bit? What the Lord is my shepherd? And what

451
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Speaker 1: is he hearing with him? Your staff and your rod

452
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Speaker 1: they comfort me, and you go well, and that Rick

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Speaker 1: the twenty third time, it's just talking about that. That staff

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Speaker 1: and the rod means that Jesus the shepherd, our Lord

455
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Speaker 1: keeps all the predators from us. It does serve that purpose.

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Speaker 1: But that ain't all that staff as used for. It's

457
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Speaker 1: not all the rods used for. It also keeps the

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Speaker 1: sheep in line and gets in the back where they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to be. And so that's part of it. And

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Speaker 1: what does he say, what do we say about this

461
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Speaker 1: perfect shepherd? I don't want for anything. I sleep under

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Speaker 1: the peace of your observation. You lay me down in

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Speaker 1: places that are RESTful and peaceful. I have found that

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Speaker 1: when I'm right with God there I am at a

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Speaker 1: peaceful deal. But when I'm kind of trying to do

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Speaker 1: it my own way, or I tell him hey today

467
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Speaker 1: i'm good, it's not very peaceful at all. And so

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Speaker 1: he says now after the suffering, which means before the suffering,

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Speaker 1: he did not see him as clearly now my eyes

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Speaker 1: see you, and here come here it comes verse six.

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Speaker 1: And so when I finally see you for who you are,

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Speaker 1: not who I tried to make you, everybody listen, because

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Speaker 1: we're all guilty of this as follow human beings. When

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Speaker 1: I finally saw you as you you actually are, not

475
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Speaker 1: the version I created, that made me a little more comfortable.

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Speaker 1: You know, we all tend to create a version of

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Speaker 1: the one and only living God, the Father, the Son,

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Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit. You know, we're so uncomfortable with

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Speaker 1: who God really is. Even our Western denominations pick part

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Speaker 1: of the try you and God that's their favorite. You

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Speaker 1: got denominations where the Holy Spirit is everything. You got

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Speaker 1: a denomination that the Father is everything. And you got

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Speaker 1: denominations where it's Jesus, Jesus, Jesus the Son, the Son,

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Speaker 1: the Son. We don't want to hear about the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: and we don't want to be reverend about the Father.

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Speaker 1: But you know what God says, But I'm Father's Son

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Speaker 1: and Holy Spirit, I am a try you in God,

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Speaker 1: you can't pick a favorite. And you know what he says,

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Speaker 1: he says, you know what, when I realize this about

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Speaker 1: you and how holy you are, a man that was

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Speaker 1: called blameless and upright compared to the rest of the

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Speaker 1: world in.

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Speaker 2: Which he lived, I despise myself.

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Speaker 1: And I repent underlying that three times and dust and ashes.

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Speaker 2: What in the world is job repenting of? Well?

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Speaker 1: Because he was called blameless and upright. I think what

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Speaker 1: we have to understand and we better be careful with this.

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Speaker 1: I can go find me some places to stay, and

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Speaker 1: I can run in groups where I look pretty good,

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Speaker 1: not as bad as them. I used to be that

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Speaker 1: person for most people. Spend time with Rick, you'll feel

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Speaker 1: better about yourself. But what we tend to do is

503
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Speaker 1: what we tend to do is we tend to, using

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Speaker 1: a sports analogy, find the weakest conference we can find

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Speaker 1: so we can become for his champions. I'm I'm around

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Speaker 1: people that I know more than they do about God,

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Speaker 1: and I live better than they do. So in this group,

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Speaker 1: i'm I'm by far the holiest. But then you start saying,

509
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Speaker 1: but you know that's not the standard. Do you realize

510
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Speaker 1: that there's not a human being on this.

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Speaker 2: Planet that is our standard? None? You can think about

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Speaker 2: the best person.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of times people have and rightfully

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Speaker 1: so when when I when I read the humility of

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Speaker 1: Charles Spurgeon, when he was asked how he felt and

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Speaker 1: if you've ever had a public platform, you will feel it.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel? I can't.

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Speaker 1: He didn't even have social media, and somehow he still

519
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: heard bad things that were being said about him.

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Speaker 2: Somebody asked him and said, how does it? How does

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Speaker 2: it feel when people say horrible things about you? Charles

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Speaker 2: s virgin He.

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Speaker 1: Said, I'm just grateful that I don't know how bad

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Speaker 1: I really am. So so even the person you think

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Speaker 1: is the best of the best, you don't know what

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Speaker 1: goes on in the times where they're by themselves. You

527
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Speaker 1: don't know the thoughts that come into their minds. You

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Speaker 1: don't know the things that get in their heart and

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Speaker 1: their falling state and that sanctification process and what God

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Speaker 1: is correcting. Job bone, as he said, Job you may

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Speaker 1: be blameless and upright compared to other people, but compared

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Speaker 1: to me, you're filthy. And Job said, when you reminded

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Speaker 1: me who you were, I started despising myself. I kind

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Speaker 1: of left the poor, poor, pitiful me and started thinking

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Speaker 1: I deserve worse than this. And I repent of my complaining,

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Speaker 1: repent of thinking you were aloof I repent for thinking

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Speaker 1: you had abandoned me. I repent for demanding that you

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Speaker 1: come into my courtroom and tell me what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: That's not the standard.

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Speaker 1: And this is the problem that we run into when

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Speaker 1: we take our sins so lightly, because we think to

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Speaker 1: ourselves compared to some of these wicked people. I know

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Speaker 1: the things I do aren't a big deal, but you're

544
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Speaker 1: not sinning against other human beings. You can sin against me,

545
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Speaker 1: my goodness, I don't deserve to be treated well by

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Speaker 1: any of you, but you're not sinning against me. I'm

547
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Speaker 1: not sinning against you, And I think we get that mindset.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to get out there in the world

549
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to try to be a pretty decent

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Speaker 1: person compared to other people. Let me tell you the

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Speaker 1: world right now, the standard is really really low.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's a week conference.

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Speaker 1: But see what we don't need to forget, Like job, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm sinning against you, I'm sinning against perfection. I'm sinning

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Speaker 1: against holy, holy Holy, And when I think about that,

556
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Speaker 1: I despise myself and I'm so grateful for the mercy

557
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Speaker 1: that you're shown me.

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Speaker 2: I repent. Maybe it's time for all of us.

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Speaker 1: I've had things that I just got on my face

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Speaker 1: with the Lord through the difficulties that I've just been through,

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Speaker 1: and I was just like, Lord, you know, I repent

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Speaker 1: of getting comfortable. I repent of thinking I have arrived.

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Speaker 1: I repent for even the teaching and the speaking that

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Speaker 1: I do. I repent of it becoming routine. I repent

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Speaker 1: of me being able to pull it off even if

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Speaker 1: I'm unprepared. I repent of all this because I've stopped

567
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Speaker 1: being dependent on you completely, and I'm too many times

568
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Speaker 1: dependent on me.

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Speaker 2: Because of the way you made me.

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Speaker 1: But no matter what gifts He's given us, they're only

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Speaker 1: here to glorify him. And for a moment that we

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Speaker 1: think we don't need him, that alone.

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Speaker 2: Is enough to consider ourselves do repentance.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time you truly repented of your

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Speaker 1: sin and stopped taking it so lightly? And I'm saying

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Speaker 1: that to myself, not just to you, sin always matters.

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Speaker 1: And I started thinking about that even with this thing

578
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Speaker 1: now with you know, what happens to the unredeemed that

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Speaker 1: I won't pretend to understand all these things, but I

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Speaker 1: know what the Bible says.

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Speaker 2: This is that once.

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Speaker 1: Again, where we tend to find God unreasonable, we tend

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Speaker 1: to decide that we're going to make him into something

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Speaker 1: we're more comfortable with. Can I give all of us

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Speaker 1: some advice today that I've had to give myself. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's time for us to stop trying to make God

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Speaker 1: something we're more comfortable with, and get on our face

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Speaker 1: and repent and beg him to make us something he's

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Speaker 1: more comfortable with.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's in need of a pr agent.

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Speaker 1: So what happens after this repent is what's God's response

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Speaker 1: to Job's repentance?

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Speaker 2: He rebukes his friends.

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Speaker 1: Are we ready for the big question? Which I do

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Speaker 1: not have the answer to. I'm so sorry Alia, who

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00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: is never addressed. I don't know whether Sherry and I

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00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: talked about this, and I said, where are you on this?

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Speaker 2: Wife?

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Speaker 1: She said, well, apparently he didn't get rebuked, So maybe

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Speaker 1: he might have said some things that you know, he

601
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Speaker 1: could have said better. But I think the Lord has

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Speaker 1: discovered that though he may have said some things better,

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Speaker 1: he never said anything sinful. Because here's what he says

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Speaker 1: about the friends, and he doesn't say this about Ali who.

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Speaker 1: After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the

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Speaker 1: Lord said to Eliphaz the timnight, my anger burns against you,

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Speaker 1: by the way, that's not good news. My anger burns

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Speaker 1: against you and against your two friends. For you have

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Speaker 1: not this is it.

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Speaker 2: This is key.

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Speaker 1: You have not spoken of me what is right, as

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Speaker 1: my servant Job has. Now, Wait a minute, there's times

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Speaker 1: I thought Joebe said things about God that got him

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Speaker 1: in trouble, And I think what we're seeing here is

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Speaker 1: Job was trying to figure it out and realize that

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Speaker 1: your theology was wrong. He was trying to figure it out,

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Speaker 1: and y'all kept coming in and doubling down on theology

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Speaker 1: about me that was incorrect.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't listen, you wouldn't have this discussion.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to show y'all that some of the

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Speaker 1: things y'all say about me, you've just made me some

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Speaker 1: kind of I go after the wicked and then I

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Speaker 1: bless the righteous, as if I'm not deeper than that.

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Speaker 1: When you can plainly look around, as Job pointed out,

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Speaker 1: and see that that's not true every time. Now, in

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Speaker 1: the end, that's all true but in the process of

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Speaker 1: working it out, I'm doing all kinds of things that

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Speaker 1: are much more complicated than what y'all said. Y'all kind

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Speaker 1: of dumb me down to something that was palatable and

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Speaker 1: something you could consume, and I'm angry about that.

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Speaker 2: So here's the thing I want to ask.

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Speaker 1: And we've asked this, by the way, if you're new

633
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: to our study, we've uncomfortably asked ourselves this question through

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Speaker 1: this entire study for one full almost a full year.

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Speaker 1: Who are we more like Job or his friends? You know,

636
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Speaker 1: because you know how we are, all of us are.

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Speaker 1: Even when you don't think you're arrogant, we always tend

638
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: to put ourselves well, I'm Job, blameless and upright, and

639
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 1: God is testing me so he can use me more.

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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, god'say, now you're actually

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Speaker 1: elaphast your bill dad, And I'm like, what you say

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Speaker 1: things about me that aren't right all the time, or

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Speaker 1: how about worse? You say things about me that are right,

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Speaker 1: but the way you live makes people think they get

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Speaker 1: confused because you said something about me that you're not

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Speaker 1: even living. That's another way of saying things about God

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Speaker 1: that aren't true, Confusing people by saying one thing and

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Speaker 1: living another.

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Speaker 2: So he says to them, you said things about me

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Speaker 2: that were not right. Now, therefore, so we've seen God's holiness.

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Speaker 2: We certainly seen God's anger. But here comes God's mercy.

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Speaker 1: Now, therefore, take seven bulls in seven rams and go

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Speaker 1: to my servant job and offer up a burnt offering

654
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Speaker 1: for yourselves. And my servant job is going to pray

655
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: for you, for I will accept his prayer and not

656
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: deal with you according to your folly. Now this I

657
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: would have loved have been there for now they have

658
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: been wearing Job out. Okay, I mean wearing job out.

659
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: Job has finally repented to God. And can I tell

660
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: one of the things his repentance was that I left

661
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: out I want to go back to you know what?

662
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: He also included in this repentance to God the death

663
00:37:54,719 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: of his own opinions. That's worth writing down. I repent

664
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: and I am now dying to my own opinions. I'm

665
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: gonna worry about your opinion, and your opinion only my

666
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: opinions are now dead because they do not matter. So

667
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: the friends made false accusations. Okay, but this confrontation with

668
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: a God did reveal to him how sinful he was.

669
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,919
Speaker 1: They didn't have it right, but God had it right.

670
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: But now we have a call for the friends to

671
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 1: repent for the way they treated Job. And I want

672
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: you to imagine you've been rough on somebody. I mean,

673
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: you've really been rough on somebody. And God stands here

674
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: and this guy you've been wearing out. He says, I

675
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 1: want y'all to go do a sacrifice, but it's up

676
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: to Job whether y'all get forgiven or not. He's gonna

677
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: pray for y'all and whatever he prays, that's what I'm

678
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: gonna do. How many of you wouldn't and being in

679
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: that position. But what Job does shows you. Remember way way, way,

680
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 1: way way way back in the first couple of chapters,

681
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: when the suffering first started and Job did not have

682
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: a typical reaction. Do you remember that, we said he

683
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: had a supernatural reaction, which showed his character. Now, over

684
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: the four months he started struggling, we can understand that,

685
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: but his initial reaction was correct and it was not normal.

686
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: Remember always be leary. We've talked this for ten years,

687
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: but let's do it again. Let's wrap it. Be real, real,

688
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: leery of giving yourself a pass by saying, well, I

689
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: know I probably shouldn't have this attitude or I shouldn't

690
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: behave this way, but this is a perfectly natural and

691
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: normal reaction. And that's what's wrong with it. That's what's

692
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: wrong with it. Don't ever give yourself a pass to

693
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: have the wrong response. Well, but Rick that my response

694
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: wouldn't great, but perfectly understandable, perfectly natural.

695
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 2: Well, that's what's wrong with it.

696
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: What we're supposed to do is the power of the

697
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is supposed to give us the power to

698
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: respond in front of the world in a way that

699
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: isn't natural, isn't normal, and isn't expected. And that's what

700
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: Job did. Well, here he goes again, because I'm gonna

701
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: tell you what normal would be. Aha, I've been waiting.

702
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: I told y'all that if God showed up, he would

703
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: vindicate me and he would get on y'all. I've been

704
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 1: telling you about this. Well, I guess y'all heard from

705
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: God himself. I was right, y'all were wrong, and now

706
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: it's up to me whether God's gonna forgive y'all or not.

707
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 2: Well, isn't this convenient? Didn't this come together? But look

708
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:47,479
Speaker 2: what Job does?

709
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: So he says, for you have not spoken to me,

710
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: and what is right as my servant, Job passed, so

711
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: he doubles down on that. So Ela fast the temanite,

712
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: and build Dad the shoe height, and Zoe so far

713
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: Namathite went and did what the Lord had told them.

714
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: Let's give them credit for that. And the Lord accepted

715
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:16,280
Speaker 1: Job's prayer. Well, if they were made right, then Job

716
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: prayed something that sounds very familiar, foreshadowing they didn't realize

717
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: what they were doing, and I asked that you forgive them,

718
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: accept their sacrifice.

719
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 2: Now.

720
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: To their credit, they went and did exactly what God

721
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: said to do. So they seemed to be repenting as well.

722
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: And Job did not say it's too late God to

723
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: go ahead and punish them. Don't forgive them, don't accept

724
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: that sacrifice. What he said was accept their sacrifice, don't

725
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: hold it against them, which also tells us that Job

726
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: surely forgave them.

727
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: That men he liked it. They may have never hung

728
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: out again.

729
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: You know, some people think that that forgiveness means you

730
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 1: go right back and you're chumming around with the people

731
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: who've done you wrong and some sort of whatever. Doesn't

732
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: mean that what it means is you don't hold the

733
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: bitterness in your heart against them, and you don't withhold

734
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: forgiveness for them that Christ didn't withhold from us. It

735
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: does not mean that you pick back up on that

736
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: monthly lunch again and y'all start still keep going on

737
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: vacation together.

738
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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that.

739
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: Sometimes, you know, because sin always matters, Sometimes there's an

740
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: insult that says, I don't hold anything against you, I

741
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: just don't desire to be around you anymore. Now you

742
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: know I've said this before. Say somebody was stealing money

743
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 1: from you in a business deal or something. You find

744
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: it out, they confess, and you go to the Lord

745
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: and say forgive them for what they did and all that,

746
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: and the person comes back and says, so we still

747
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: continue in this relationship, and you're like, no, no, no, no,

748
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: I know I've forgiven you. I hope the Lord has

749
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: forgiven you, but I'm on need a little space before

750
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: I get into another business deal.

751
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: We then probably won't do that again. That's not a forgiveness.

752
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: It's probably just being smart, you know, are not putting

753
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: yourself in that situation again for them either. So so

754
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 1: in this case, I don't know that if they remain friends.

755
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 2: Whatever didn't tell us perfectly, okay, if they did.

756
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: All I know is that Joe did not withhold forgiveness,

757
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: and he told God that he did.

758
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: He wanted them to be forgiven.

759
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: And I can honestly tell you this is one of

760
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,959
Speaker 1: the areas that I have come a million miles thanks

761
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: to the power of sanctification. I can tell you that

762
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: I have finally learned that withholding forgiveness are being bitter

763
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: toward people that have wronged you in any way. It's

764
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: just what we said in here before. It's like drinking

765
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: poison thinking they're gonna die.

766
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 2: Okay.

767
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: I can honestly tell you that I do not withhold

768
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: forgiveness and I do not hold resentment. I may say

769
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: something to what I didn't really like that. Oh, by

770
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: the way, that wasn't true. Nothing wrong with all that,

771
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: But I don't have to be vindicated, and I certainly

772
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: don't wish bad things on other people because I know

773
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: what I deserve and I and I and I have

774
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: gotten to the point that I can honestly say to

775
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: even people i'm at odds with, I hope the Lord

776
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: continues to bless them. I hope that they continue to

777
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: move forward in their lives, and I wish them no

778
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: ill will. And that seems to be what Job is doing.

779
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: So what happens? What's what's God's response to the mercy

780
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 1: and and and and the fact that he gave them

781
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: a chance to atone for their sin. He did not

782
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: seek vindication. They did it, and Job's prayer was heard

783
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: and everybody was forgiven. And now we're moving forward to

784
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: the response of the Lord. Now the Lord restores Job's fortunes.

785
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he

786
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: had prayed for his friends. I'd underline that when he

787
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: had prayed for his friends.

788
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 2: Hmmm.

789
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like God was watching how he was

790
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: going to handle that too, isn't it.

791
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: And the Lord gave Job.

792
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 1: Twice as much as he had before, So God's gonna

793
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,919
Speaker 1: double it. And now hang on, got a big one coming.

794
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and

795
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: all who had known him before, and ate bread with

796
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: him in his house. I don't have the answer for you,

797
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: but I'm going to notice something here. I don't see

798
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: his wife in here. Is it just assumed? Maybe had

799
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 1: she died the last time we heard from her. She

800
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: told Job to curse God and die. She was very,

801
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: very upset about what had happened, which we certainly understand.

802
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: But do we just do you see that? You know,

803
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: the Word of God says brothers and sisters. Now, that

804
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: could be siblings, It could be the people in the community,

805
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: because it said and all who had known him. So

806
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: I think that's a different category. So I assume those

807
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: are brothers and sisters of his and all who had

808
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: known him before and ate bread with him in his house,

809
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: and they showed him sympathy and comforted him.

810
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 2: For all the evil, oh, that the Lord had brought

811
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 2: upon him. Well, well, well, what now?

812
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: Be careful This word here we're using for evil does

813
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: not mean that God did something evil. Now there is

814
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: something we can't get away from here, though, which I've

815
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: been We've been talking about for a year. What that

816
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: evil means is all the horrible things that happened to Job.

817
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 2: It does not mean that God anything.

818
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: It really means disaster would be a better interpretation of that,

819
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: and that is one option. In the original Hebrew it says,

820
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: like you know, it was these things felt evil to

821
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: Job because they were hard. Disease and death of his

822
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: children and loss of everything. That what they're talking about is.

823
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: But here's what you got, don't We're not going to

824
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: shy away from this. They comfort him. What for all

825
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 1: the disaster that the Lord.

826
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 2: Had brought upon him? Who brought it? Well, the Lord,

827
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 2: he says, the Lord brought it on him.

828
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: So the devil did it. But the Lord set up

829
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: the arrangement, and the Lord set the boundaries, and the

830
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: Lord allowed the devil to do what was done, and

831
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: the prayer was and they comforted him. They said that

832
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: the Lord brought this upon him. Well, this kind of

833
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: gets in those semantics, doesn't it. Well, I'm okay with

834
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: the Lord allowing it, I'm not okay with the Lord

835
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: causing it. Well, I've actually shown you placing in scripture

836
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 1: where the Lord actually causes horrible things to happen to people,

837
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: to refine them as well, not just the wicked and

838
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: and law and whatever he does. We've learned through this

839
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: is right. The Lord brought the disasters in, either indirectly

840
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: or directly, because he could have kept all that from

841
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: happening to job right, So did y'all think that all

842
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 1: of a sudden the adversary just ran wild and God

843
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. I don't know he got away from me.

844
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: He's completely under God's control the whole time. He's a pawn.

845
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 2: In all this.

846
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 1: God also knew Joe well enough to know what the

847
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 1: end result would be, and each of them gave him

848
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: a piece of money and a ring of gold. So

849
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,479
Speaker 1: they're now donating to the cause, even though God's got

850
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: that handled. Interesting that the human beings begin, it's almost

851
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: like it's a wonderful life, isn't it. It's almost like

852
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: Job right now is George Bailey, and everybody's bringing in

853
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: the money and trying to restore him and all this.

854
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,240
Speaker 1: And look later, twelve latter days, and the Lord blessed

855
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 1: the latter days of Job more than his beginning. Well,

856
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: how about it, old fellows. That feels pretty good, doesn't it.

857
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: The latter days for Job were better than the beginning.

858
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: And we think Joe was somewhere around seventy right here,

859
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: and we'll get into that here in just a minute.

860
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels. These

861
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 1: are all double numbers from what he had to begin with,

862
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: one thousand yoke of auction and one thousand female donkeys.

863
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: If you go back to the beginning, that's a doubling

864
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: of all of that. He also, now here's where it

865
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 1: gets real interesting. He also has seven sons and three daughters.

866
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 1: Well wait a minute, that's just ten. He's doubling everything.

867
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: But Joe had ten children that were killed. Why is

868
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Speaker 1: he only getting ten? Shouldn't it be twenty? What is twenty?

869
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: Because he still has the original ten. These are not animals,

870
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:02,280
Speaker 1: these are his human children. They're not with him on earth,

871
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: but he still has them, all ten of them from

872
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: what we can gather. So when you see the doubling

873
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: of livestock, the doubling of everything, and you get to

874
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: the children and you only see ten, not twenty, this

875
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: ten now makes twenty. I hope for those of you

876
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: like me that have children that have gone on ahead

877
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: of you, I hope that's comforting.

878
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 2: Even when David said to the baby that.

879
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: God actually caused to be ill and brought that child

880
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: to him, David said that the child would not come

881
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: back to him on earth, but he would go to

882
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: the child.

883
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 2: The child's still there.

884
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: And so we see here that this is an indication

885
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: all ten of them are also with job in eternity.

886
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:54,280
Speaker 1: But isn't this interesting that the daughters we get their names?

887
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: And he called the name of the first daughter looks

888
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: like it's a Gemma Jimia. And the name of the

889
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: second one is Keziah. And the name of the third

890
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: is it almost so such it's a it's a Karen,

891
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's Korene. And then I'm not sure

892
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: how to pronounce that hah pooch or something.

893
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

894
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: Look at this, look at fifteen and in all the land,

895
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. So

896
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: he gave him three more daughters. And he said, I'm

897
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: not even gonna make him ugly. You've been through enough.

898
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: And uh, of course, I don't know if any of you.

899
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes beautiful daughters can bring even more trouble. So so anyway,

900
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,720
Speaker 1: but but no, I you know that no one really

901
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: knows why God wanted to be sure that we knew that.

902
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: But we get the names of the daughters, not the sons. Uh,

903
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: and it and and it says that you know they're

904
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: they're they're not just beautiful. But notice what happens next.

905
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: And this was not part of the normal culture by

906
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: the way, and their father gave them an inheritance among

907
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: their brothers.

908
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 2: That was not done. The daughters never got an inheritance.

909
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: They had to go marry with somebody in order to

910
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: have wealth, and then obviously they'd be worth something that

911
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 1: he would even give to the son's family the value,

912
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, to go with his daughter. But these daughters,

913
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: arrangement was made that they would have an inheritance just

914
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: like their brothers. So you see, God just continues to

915
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: take care of everything and just continues to heap on

916
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: top of all of this. Sixteen and after this, Job

917
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: lived one hundred and forty years. Now they thought he

918
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: was around seventy. And the commentators are saying, are we

919
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: saying that there was another one hundred and forty years

920
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: or is it saying that he lived one hundred and

921
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: forty total, we doubled another seventy For it likely that's

922
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: it because he's doubling everything, and he saw his sons

923
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: and his sons sons four generations, and Job died an

924
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: old man and full of days. So sometimes when you

925
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: see going that far, that may lend itself that was

926
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: actually another one hundred and forty as well, whatever the

927
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: case may be. We know that he lived a very

928
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: long time, and does anybody, especially if you've been with

929
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: us on another Bible study we did. Who else did

930
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: we hear that they died an old man and full

931
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: of days? Abraham?

932
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, same exact phrase.

933
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: So job's in the company of Abraham that God decided

934
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: that the latter days will be better than the beginning days.

935
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: And that when you see what it says when you

936
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: see this phrase, because we researched this member back in

937
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 1: our study of Gymesis in Genesis, full of days is

938
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: an indicator that he never lost his mind, he never

939
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: had to minsia, he never had Alzheimer's. He was as

940
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: sharp on the day that he died as he was

941
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: when he was a young man. Can you imagine that blessing?

942
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: Raise your handfe you like that with my hands up.

943
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 2: I mean, can you.

944
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: Imagine that that you're sitting there, living over one hundred

945
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: and something years and you're not losing a step, You're

946
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: not losing your mind, you're sharp and full of days.

947
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: That younger people y'all don't know what a blessing that is.

948
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: That's a big deal, because I know right now you

949
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: think you'll feel the way you feel for the rest

950
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: of your life. You won't if you live long enough,

951
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: but take care of yourself, you'll be glad you did.

952
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: So what's what's the final takeaway as we as we

953
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: finish up this provocative study of Job. Well, there's one

954
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: theme that ran the entire gamut of this, and that

955
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: is that God knew that he could trust Job because

956
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: he knew the outcome, while at the same time allowing

957
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: choices to be made. And I know that this is

958
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: tension that the Church has argued about forever. I don't

959
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: get involved in that argument because I know Scripture tells

960
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: me that God is all knowing. Scripture tells me that

961
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: God is sovereign. And throughout Scripture, I see God allowing

962
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: people to make decisions and choices that he already knows

963
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: what choice you're gonna make.

964
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 2: Can I grasp that not fully? Do?

965
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: I believe it and trust it by faith? Absolutely good

966
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,959
Speaker 1: enough for me. Whatever God says about himself, I'm fine

967
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: with that, And I think my mind would probably explode

968
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: if he said, well today, I'll tell you exactly how

969
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: this works.

970
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 2: I know my finite mind my brain could not take that.

971
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: So I think we find out in this that God

972
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: is very serious about sin. I think that one of

973
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: the things that we need to learn because all this

974
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: is a foreshadowing of Jesus. I think once again we're

975
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: learning that the best of us is still wretched and

976
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: filthy rags, as scripture tells us before a holy, holy God.

977
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: I think we have to be very careful to pretend

978
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: that God is just, you know, a really really advanced

979
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: version of us. We got to be real careful when

980
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: the created begins to think that we have some kind

981
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: of standing with the Creator, that we can stand in

982
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: his presence.

983
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 2: And make a case for ourselves.

984
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you the one thing that I have

985
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: learned loud and clear is don't question God. Don't don't

986
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: think he owes you an explanation, and be real careful

987
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: if you start asking him to reveal himself to you

988
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: and give you his resume, because he just might.

989
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 2: He just might.

990
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: And we also see the beauty that if we are

991
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: willing to repent. And what does repent mean? I don't

992
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: want you to lose this. I hope you underline verse six.

993
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: Repentance is despising yourself and despising your sin. You've heard

994
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: it said before. It's not thinking less of yourself as

995
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: far as your value is. Just thinking about yourself less

996
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: and understand that none of us have standing before a

997
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: holy God without Jesus.

998
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 2: Boy, we need Jesus.

999
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: We desperately need Jesus because we bring nothing to the table,

1000
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: nothing but the beautiful thing is is here's this God

1001
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: that could have said so easily to job. I taught

1002
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: you the lesson. You finally learned it. Now get on

1003
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: back to the rest of your life. He said, you

1004
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna I'm going to show your friends

1005
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: that you did. We're not hiding some secret sin from me.

1006
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to forgive them as well, and I'm going

1007
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: to restore all these things to you, including I'm going

1008
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: to give you ten more children. We still we don't

1009
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: know whether this these ten children with another wife or

1010
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: whether it was the same wife, because we're not We

1011
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: don't get.

1012
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 2: An explanation on that. We don't get an explanation on

1013
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 2: the Lihu. So that'd be.

1014
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: Something we can look forward to in heaven. You know,

1015
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: whenever we run him down, we'll say, so, what was

1016
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: the deal? Because I'm not going to ask God about it,

1017
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: because I've already learned not to do that, But I'm

1018
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: going to ask you about it. Why did God let

1019
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: you leave? Did you did you wonder off and they

1020
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: didn't ask you to come back? Did you get bored

1021
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: during the resume? I mean, were you there?

1022
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 2: We don't know? And how about this?

1023
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: Why in the world doesn't God want us to know

1024
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: what happened to Liehu. I don't know, but I'm not

1025
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: about to question the moment. You know what good enough

1026
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: for me? And so I would ask all of us

1027
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: the question, what is our takeaway from this? Because can

1028
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: I tell you what I have learned throughout life? Go

1029
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: ahead and learn these lessons that other people had to learn,

1030
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: so you don't have to learn them the same way.

1031
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: Accept this, and maybe today, if we don't take anything

1032
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: else away, maybe today we need to say to God,

1033
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,439
Speaker 1: compared to other people, I thought I looked pretty good,

1034
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 1: but today I was reminded that compared to you, I

1035
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: need to repent whatever it is. Repent because if we

1036
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: were willing to repent, turn from our sin, despise our sin,

1037
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: hate our sin, and see sin the way God sees it,

1038
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: he will forgive us. He will make things right, He

1039
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: will restore us to him Because the wrath. It needs

1040
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: to be poured down. All of us has already been

1041
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: poured out on Jesus. But we got to make sure

1042
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: that we don't have some sort of elevated view of

1043
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: ourselves that for some reason, Jesus's sacrifice wasn't necessary because

1044
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm so wonderful. God's going to love me just like

1045
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: I am compared to other people, maybe compared to God.

1046
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 1: We're in desperate need for grace and mercy, and we're

1047
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: in desperate need for Jesus to make us more like God,

1048
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: because that's the standard. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today,

1049
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 1: thank you for the grace of mercy you've shown us all.

1050
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: We worship who you are and your holy name. We

1051
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: pray Amen. Next week we'll do a standalone message and

1052
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: then we'll get into a new series in twenty twenty

1053
01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: six