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And Job Lived Happily Ever After . . . Or Did He, Part 3 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Today, from Bible teacher Chuck Swindoll.
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  Speaker 2: Douglas MacArthur wrote on his 75th birthday, In the central
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  Speaker 2: place of every heart there is a recording chamber, so
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  Speaker 2: long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage.
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  Speaker 2: So long are you young, but when the wires are
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  Speaker 2: all down and your heart is covered with the snows
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  Speaker 2: of pessimism, you are young. and the ice of cynicism,
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  Speaker 2: then and only then have you grown old.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do with a gift you didn't earn
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  Speaker 1: and could never repay? For Job, his fiery season of
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  Speaker 1: suffering finally cooled. The long night gave way to morning,
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  Speaker 1: and from the hand of God came blessing upon blessing,
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  Speaker 1: more than he'd lost, more than he'd dreamed. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful thing. Those blessings weren't just for Job. Woven
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  Speaker 1: through his story is hope for you, wherever you find
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  Speaker 1: yourself today, right now in your own fire. Today on
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  Speaker 1: Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll continues a message titled, And
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  Speaker 1: Job Lived Happily Ever After. Or did he?
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  Speaker 2: I find when I get to the 10th verse of
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  Speaker 2: this last chapter of his book, that it begins to
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  Speaker 2: list for me no less than four great rewards that
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  Speaker 2: came his way. Four gold-like blessings from the hand of God.
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  Speaker 2: And I enumerate them for us so that you might
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  Speaker 2: take hope where you find yourself today. Now your rewards
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  Speaker 2: will be different because our trials are different. The blessings
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  Speaker 2: that come your way ultimately will not be the same
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  Speaker 2: as Job's necessarily. But these are his, and you will
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  Speaker 2: have yours. Take heart. The first of the four blessings
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  Speaker 2: I find in verse 10 and verse 12 of Job 42.
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  Speaker 2: Job's possessions are doubled. The Lord restored the fortunes of
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  Speaker 2: Job when he prayed for his friends. And the latter
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  Speaker 2: part of the verse explains what that means. the Lord
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  Speaker 2: increased all that Job had twofold. Now, there's a second
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  Speaker 2: blessing that comes in verse 11. His relatives and friends emerge.
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  Speaker 2: Notice what these people did when they came. They came
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  Speaker 2: to him and they ate bread with him in his
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  Speaker 2: house and they consoled him and they comforted him for
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  Speaker 2: all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him.
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  Speaker 2: What a great family reunion. That brings me to a
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  Speaker 2: third blessing that came his way. Job's children are all replaced.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 13. He had seven sons and three daughters. Let's
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  Speaker 2: say they did. Okay. She had a little hand in that.
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  Speaker 2: They're both getting up in years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And one day she says to Job, you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to believe this. but I think I'm pregnant. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: say what? Let's just say they're both 70, okay? Let's
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  Speaker 2: just start there. Here's Job laughing with his wife over
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  Speaker 2: the fact he's going to have a baby. Takes some
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  Speaker 2: maternity clothes out of mothballs and says, yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 2: I can fit back into that. Not just once. Not twice.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking ten pregnancies. He and his wife were given
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  Speaker 2: the ability to reproduce. And regardless of their ages, and
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  Speaker 2: we're not told exactly what it is, they get to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the blessings of parenting, get this, with the wisdom
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  Speaker 2: of grandparents. Can't beat that combination. How often we have said,
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  Speaker 2: I so wish I knew then... What I now know,
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  Speaker 2: I'd have been such a better parent. Well, they have
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  Speaker 2: the chance for a second time around. They don't make
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  Speaker 2: the mistakes they made the first time, or many of them.
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  Speaker 2: They got seven boys and they got three daughters. And
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  Speaker 2: we read a little about the girls here, not anything
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  Speaker 2: about the boys. We read their names, Jemima and Kezia
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  Speaker 2: and Karen Hapuk. Notice something else about the daughters. Not
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  Speaker 2: only their names, but they're lovely. In all the land,
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  Speaker 2: no women were found so fair as Job's daughters. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that great? In all the land, there was none so fair.
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  Speaker 2: And their father, here's the third fact. Not only their
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  Speaker 2: names and their beauty within and without, but their father
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  Speaker 2: gave them inheritance among their brothers. How unusual. But understand,
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  Speaker 2: this is before the Mosaic Law. Now the fourth of
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  Speaker 2: the great blessings have to do with his later years.
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  Speaker 2: The blessings of a long and satisfying life. You read
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  Speaker 2: of them in 16 and 17. Let's say Job is
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  Speaker 2: about 70 by the time the healing comes and the
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  Speaker 2: recovery and he's lived a full life and And now
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  Speaker 2: we read that he lives 140 years after this, after
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  Speaker 2: the trials. And now he enters, if you will, a
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  Speaker 2: second phase of life. And if you add 70 to this,
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  Speaker 2: you come up with 210 years of life. How great
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  Speaker 2: that must have been for him. In fact, look at
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  Speaker 2: what we read. He saw his sons and his grandsons. Great-grandsons.
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  Speaker 2: It says four generations. Sons, grandsons, great-grandson. Maybe great-great, depending
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  Speaker 2: on where the generations would start. It's not clear from this.
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  Speaker 2: And then he died. Not a sweet way it appears.
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  Speaker 2: He dies an old man and full of days. The
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  Speaker 2: message reads, then he died an old man of full life.
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  Speaker 2: The Living Bible renders this, Then at last he died,
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  Speaker 2: an old, old man, after living a long, good life.
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  Speaker 2: You know, men and women, not much is said in
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  Speaker 2: any circle about those who are aging. It's sort of
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  Speaker 2: the overlooked segment of life, even though there are more
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  Speaker 2: of this particular category than ever before in our history.
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  Speaker 2: of humanity. So we linger here long enough to not
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  Speaker 2: only have a little fun with it, but to draw
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  Speaker 2: some lessons from it. This is a man who has
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  Speaker 2: seen a lot of life. It's said of Abraham, he
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  Speaker 2: breathed his last and died in a ripe old age,
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  Speaker 2: an old man, and satisfied with life, and he was
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  Speaker 2: gathered to his people. Probably a reference of joining his
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  Speaker 2: people in the afterlife. We would say in heaven. It
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  Speaker 2: was said of David, then he died in a ripe
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  Speaker 2: old age, full of days, riches, and honor. Job is
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  Speaker 2: not dying a struggling, cranky, broken old codger. Who no
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  Speaker 2: one enjoyed being around. This man is seeing his children,
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  Speaker 2: his grandchildren, his great-grandchildren dying. He is reliving so much
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  Speaker 2: of life and passing along so many of the things
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  Speaker 2: that he has learned. One of my sources says the
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  Speaker 2: patriarchal formula, old and full of years, is expressive of
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  Speaker 2: a completely fulfilled life. What a way to die. Not
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  Speaker 2: as we began living happily ever after. That's not possible.
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  Speaker 2: We're on this earth. We still have a Sin cursed nature.
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  Speaker 2: We still must deal with a hostile world and nature
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  Speaker 2: and others that is less than desirable. But there can
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  Speaker 2: be satisfaction. There can be fulfillment. There can be a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Age is not kind to the human body. There are
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  Speaker 2: things that occur that even those very effective in their
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  Speaker 2: earlier years find begin to fade. You who are younger
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  Speaker 2: have no idea what that feels like. Let's learn from
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  Speaker 2: a passage like this, the value of helping those who
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  Speaker 2: are aging enjoy a more satisfying life. Douglas MacArthur wrote
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  Speaker 2: on his 75th birthday, in the central place of every heart,
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  Speaker 2: there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives
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  Speaker 2: messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, So long are
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  Speaker 2: you young. But when the wires are all down and
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  Speaker 2: your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and
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  Speaker 2: the ice of cynicism, then and only. then have you
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  Speaker 2: grown old. It's my experience to be in an enviable
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  Speaker 2: place where I am in life, especially as it relates
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  Speaker 2: to ministry and to my connection with Dallas Seminary. You
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  Speaker 2: have no idea, unless you're where I am, as often
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  Speaker 2: as I am, you have no idea of the pleasure
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  Speaker 2: that I get from being with men who are my mentors,
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  Speaker 2: who taught me when I was younger, and they're still
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  Speaker 2: walking with God. It's wonderful to see a 75, 80,
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  Speaker 2: even into their 90-year-olds still loving Jesus, still writing great
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  Speaker 2: works and reading and challenging me to stay strong. I
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  Speaker 2: love it when they call me Sonny. Dr. Walvoord has
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  Speaker 2: talked to me. He says, when I was your age,
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  Speaker 2: I thought that is a great compliment, man. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: know that aging has its scary moments, I realize. Some
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  Speaker 2: are still driving in their 90s. We had one of
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  Speaker 2: our older faculty members driving up and bouncing off the
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  Speaker 2: curb not long ago. And the car just died. And
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  Speaker 2: so the other, the person that was riding with him,
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  Speaker 2: jumped out of the door and held on to the
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  Speaker 2: top and went. It was great. I was so glad
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  Speaker 2: I had not been in that car. Some wag said, remember,
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  Speaker 2: older folks are worth a lot more. They have silver
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  Speaker 2: in their hair, gold in their teeth, stones in their kidneys,
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  Speaker 2: lead in their feet, natural gas in their gut. worth
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  Speaker 2: a lot folks let me give you five tips on
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  Speaker 2: how to stay young okay i'm going to pass them
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  Speaker 2: along to you they're original with me nobody gave them
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  Speaker 2: to me i've sort of learned them as life has
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  Speaker 2: unfolded for me and uh you might want to write
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  Speaker 2: them down i don't care what your age is you'll
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  Speaker 2: be here someday And when you are, you'll need to
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  Speaker 2: review these. You want to stay young? Remember these five things.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, your mind isn't old. So keep developing it.
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  Speaker 2: Your mind isn't old. Keep developing it. Read more. Watch
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  Speaker 2: less television. Spend time with people who talk about events
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  Speaker 2: and ideas rather than sitting around a shop talking about people.
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  Speaker 2: And how sorry this young generation is. Nobody wants to
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  Speaker 2: be around a crotchety old person who sees only the
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  Speaker 2: clouds and the rain. Your mind is not old. Keep
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  Speaker 2: developing it. Keep developing it. I read about one comedian
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  Speaker 2: who said his daddy is so ready to die he
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  Speaker 2: won't even buy green bananas. That's a crazy way to live.
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  Speaker 2: Dare the aging process. Buy a whole bunch of green bananas.
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  Speaker 2: Your mind isn't old. Number two, your humor isn't over.
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  Speaker 2: Keep enjoying it. I love being around older people who
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  Speaker 2: still see the sunny side of life. They still see
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  Speaker 2: things funny happening. They still can tell a great story.
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  Speaker 2: They still enjoy a real belly laugh. You look fabulous
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  Speaker 2: when you laugh. And it takes years off of you.
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  Speaker 2: Helps clean out some of the lines on your faces.
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  Speaker 2: And some of you would do well to cultivate a
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  Speaker 2: better sense of humor. Did I say something wrong? Maybe so.
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  Speaker 2: Your humor isn't over. Keep developing it. Keep enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: Number three, your strength isn't gone. Keep using it. Don't
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  Speaker 2: let yourself get crippled up, if you will. If affliction
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  Speaker 2: comes and you can't hold it back, that's obvious. And
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  Speaker 2: certainly we care about that and we want you to
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  Speaker 2: find assistance any way you can. And we are increasingly
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  Speaker 2: more sensitive, I'm glad to say, of those who have disabilities.
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  Speaker 2: But most of us don't, thank the Lord. Quit addressing
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  Speaker 2: every ache and pain. We're talking about how weak you're
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  Speaker 2: getting and how others will have to do this for you.
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  Speaker 2: You keep doing it. My physician friend for so many
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  Speaker 2: years made the mistake of telling an 84-year-old woman who
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  Speaker 2: had just ran five miles. He said to her at
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  Speaker 2: the next checkup, he said, you know, take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to run five miles. Week and a
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  Speaker 2: half later, she died. And he said to me at
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  Speaker 2: the memorial service, I'll never again tell a patient to
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  Speaker 2: take it easy. Step up. Step up. Take the stairway.
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  Speaker 2: Don't always take the elevator. Walk out into life and
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  Speaker 2: travel and accept the challenges that life throws at you.
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  Speaker 2: You become increasingly more in demand. Your strength isn't gone.
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  Speaker 2: Keep using it. Here's a fourth. Your opportunities haven't vanished.
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  Speaker 2: So keep pursuing them. There are people all around you
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  Speaker 2: who could use an encouraging word, an affirming note, a
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  Speaker 2: phone call that says, I love you and believe in
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  Speaker 2: you and I'm praying for you. So go there. Opportunities
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  Speaker 2: have not vanished. Don't allow yourself to get crowded in
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  Speaker 2: And closed in so that all the blinds stay pulled
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  Speaker 2: and all the doors stay locked. And you live in
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  Speaker 2: the terror of somebody taking advantage of you. What a
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  Speaker 2: dreadful way to live. Without removing any of the need
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  Speaker 2: for necessary safety, don't live your life facing and thinking
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  Speaker 2: only of the dangers. If you do, you'll never leave
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  Speaker 2: your neighborhood. Opportunities have vanished. Keep pursuing them. Fifth is obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Your God is not dead. Keep serving and seeking him.
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  Speaker 2: You'll find the living God is ageless. We always picture
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  Speaker 2: him as an old man with white hair blowing wind
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  Speaker 2: out of the north. But that's not God. The Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is timeless. One of the things we'll be impressed
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  Speaker 2: with when we're with him is this incredible condition in
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  Speaker 2: which he is living his life. Take care of yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Keep up those good habits of health. Don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: not important. Job pulled through all of this and lived
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  Speaker 2: even another 140 years. And I read nothing of his
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  Speaker 2: being somehow set aside. Ten kids will do that to
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  Speaker 2: you if nothing else. That'll keep you hopping. Came across
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  Speaker 2: a piece. Lord, thou knowest better than I know myself
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  Speaker 2: that I am growing older and will someday be old.
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  Speaker 2: Keep me from getting talkative and particularly from the fatal
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  Speaker 2: habit of thinking I must say something on every subject
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  Speaker 2: and on every occasion. Release me from the craving to
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  Speaker 2: try and straighten out everybody's affairs. Keep my mind free
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  Speaker 2: from the recital of endless details. Give me wings to
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  Speaker 2: get to the point. I ask for grace enough to
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  Speaker 2: listen to the tales of others' pains. Help me endure
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  Speaker 2: them with patience. but sealed my lips on my own
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  Speaker 2: aches and pains. They are increasing, and my love of
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  Speaker 2: rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.
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  Speaker 2: I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a
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  Speaker 2: growing humility and a lessening caught sureness when my memory
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  Speaker 2: seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me
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  Speaker 2: the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken, Keep
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  Speaker 2: me reasonably sweet. Isn't that a great line? I do
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  Speaker 2: not want to be a saint. Some of them are
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  Speaker 2: so hard to live with. But a sour old woman
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  Speaker 2: or man is one of the crowning works of the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Make me thoughtful but not moody. Helpful but not bossy.
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  Speaker 2: With my vast store of wisdom, seems a pity not
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  Speaker 2: to use it. But thou knowest, Lord, I want a
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  Speaker 2: few friends at the end. Give me the ability to
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  Speaker 2: see good things in unexplored. places and talents in unexpected people.
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  Speaker 2: And give me, Lord, the grace to tell them so.
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  Speaker 2: I wish for all of you a full life that's
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  Speaker 2: marked not by living happily ever after. Impossible. but satisfied, fulfilled, challenged, useful, godly, balanced,
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  Speaker 2: reasonably sweet. Reasonably sweet. I'm going to draw two more
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  Speaker 2: messages from Job. One will be what Job teaches us
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  Speaker 2: about ourselves. That's next time. And following that, what Job
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  Speaker 2: teaches us about our God, then I promise we'll end
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  Speaker 2: the series. Bow with me, will you please? Could it
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  Speaker 2: be that the reason you are finding it elusive, this
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  Speaker 2: pursuit of a dream or remaining reasonably sweet, that you
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  Speaker 2: simply don't have a Savior? Here you are at this
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  Speaker 2: age lived all these years, however old you may be,
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  Speaker 2: and you've never come to the cross. My, what a gap.
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  Speaker 2: No wonder life's getting more tedious and you're becoming more negative.
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  Speaker 2: You're lost. You're lost. Spiritually unborn. There's a remedy. There's
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  Speaker 2: a remedy. There's a remedy. We sang about it in
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  Speaker 2: the hymns and the songs. He is our strength when
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  Speaker 2: we are weak. He is the treasure that we seek.
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  Speaker 2: He is our all in all. That's Christ. I invite
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  Speaker 2: you to him. Just turn it over to him. Bring
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  Speaker 2: all the stuff of your life and he has a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful way like restoring Job, he'll restore you, forgive you,
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  Speaker 2: give you a future. Come to him today, won't you?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord, for lessons learned within the lines and
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  Speaker 2: between the lines of your inspired word. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: truth to live by and to die by and to
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  Speaker 2: age with And to pass along. Thank you for our
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  Speaker 2: friend Job. It's like he's almost become a member of
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  Speaker 2: our family. Thank you for his model. Thank you for.
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  Speaker 2: Coming back. To him with such words. And deeds of assurance.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for blessing him. Like no one else in
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  Speaker 2: his day. We find hope there, Lord, and reason to
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  Speaker 2: go on. We love you. And we say again, you
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  Speaker 2: are our all in all. For when even our father
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  Speaker 2: and mother fail us, the Lord will take us up.
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  Speaker 2: And weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. Those who sow in sorrow and tears
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  Speaker 2: will reap in joy. I pray for my friends today
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  Speaker 2: who hear these words, who've never come to the Savior,
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  Speaker 2: or they've come and they've drifted. They've let the old
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  Speaker 2: nature take over. I pray that you'd cleanse them and
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  Speaker 2: free them and give them renewal and hope. They might
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  Speaker 2: become one of those treasured, aging people we need more
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  Speaker 2: of in this old world that's lost its way. And
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  Speaker 2: now unto him who has guarded us from stumbling and
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  Speaker 2: who can present us faultless before the presence of his
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  Speaker 2: joy with exceeding joy. To the only wise God, our
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  Speaker 2: dear Savior. Be glory and majesty, dominion and power both
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  Speaker 2: now and forever. In Jesus' dear name we pray and
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  Speaker 2: everyone said, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: What a gift to reach the end of Job's story
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  Speaker 1: and find not a fairy tale, but something far richer.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindoll reminds us that on this earth, no one
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  Speaker 1: lives happily ever after. Yet there can be fulfillment, purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and blessing from the hand of God. You're listening to
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  Speaker 1: Insight for Living. It's possible you found yourself resonating with
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  Speaker 1: Job's plight today. Maybe you've been sitting in a cauldron
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  Speaker 1: of your own suffering, and you're wondering when the suffering
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  Speaker 1: will end, and if God even sees you. Well, Chuck
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  Speaker 1: wrote a helpful book that will answer those questions. It's
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  Speaker 1: called Finding God When the World's on Fire. This book
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  Speaker 1: is for anyone whose faith is being tested by loss,
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  Speaker 1: by illness, by uncertainty, by a world that refuses to
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  Speaker 1: offer hope. We'd like to send you a copy when
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  Speaker 1: you make a gift to support the ministry of Insight
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  Speaker 1: for Living. Let me assure you, your generosity truly makes
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  Speaker 1: a difference. Listen to this note we receive from one
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  Speaker 1: of your fellow listeners who just turned 40. They said,
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  Speaker 1: Dear Pastor Swindoll, Though we've never met, I felt compelled
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  Speaker 1: to write to you. Your teaching and writing have been
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  Speaker 1: God has used your reflections to bring clarity, conviction, and
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  Speaker 1: encouragement at just the right time. Not as a distant
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  Speaker 1: or abstract voice, but as one who seemed to understand
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  Speaker 1: both the weight and the wonder of walking faithfully with Him. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: or online, it's insight.org slash donate. So what does the
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  Speaker 1: book of Job actually teach us about ourselves? I'm Bill Meyer.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindoll answers that question Tuesday on Insight for Living.
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