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What Job Teaches Us about Our God, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Some truths you can only learn in the hard places.
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  Speaker 1: Absolute trust in God is one of them. If life
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  Speaker 1: has always gone smoothly, surrendering control can feel impossible. But
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  Speaker 1: those who've walked through the fire, well, they often come
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  Speaker 1: out holding on to something the rest of us are
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  Speaker 1: still wrestling with. Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll
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  Speaker 1: continues the final message in our study of Job and
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  Speaker 1: shows us how the deepest trials can lead us to
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  Speaker 1: the deepest trust. Chuck titled his message, What Job Teaches
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  Speaker 1: Us About Our God. And we begin with prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Father, we have often turned to you in times of need.
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  Speaker 2: We turn to you today in a few extra moments
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  Speaker 2: of praise. We have given you our songs of praise today.
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  Speaker 2: We have acknowledged your character. You are immortal, invisible, the
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  Speaker 2: only wise God. You are, because of your transcendent yet
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  Speaker 2: invisible presence, You are over all our lives and in
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  Speaker 2: all our ways, and you, like none other, watch over
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  Speaker 2: your own and care for us with an infinite care
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  Speaker 2: that is beyond our imagination. You never slumber. You never
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  Speaker 2: take a nap. You never sleep. You're never preoccupied. Your
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  Speaker 2: mind is never on something other than each one of
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  Speaker 2: your children. And yet through you and your precious Son,
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  Speaker 2: all things in this universe hang together. The affairs and
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  Speaker 2: the events of our lives do not concern you in
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  Speaker 2: the sense of troubling you. You watch over every one
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  Speaker 2: of them better than we could. You never have a
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  Speaker 2: day off. You are never absent. You are never without compassion, goodness,
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  Speaker 2: and grace. How can we help but praise your name,
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  Speaker 2: our Father? We've had great dads, but never a father
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  Speaker 2: like you. We have seen the work of good fathers,
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  Speaker 2: but never one who works like you. We have known
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  Speaker 2: powerful and strong fathers, but never one who is all-powerful.
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  Speaker 2: We have known brilliant dads, but we have never known
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  Speaker 2: one who is omniscient, knowing all. And so it is
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  Speaker 2: only appropriate, our Father, that we bow before you, thanking
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  Speaker 2: you for your word, not a mark of which will
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  Speaker 2: be taken away or removed throughout time and eternity. As
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  Speaker 2: the heavens are high above the earth, so is your
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  Speaker 2: way higher than our ways and your thoughts above our thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: As the rain comes down in the snow from heaven
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't return, but waters the earth and makes it
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  Speaker 2: bring forth and bud, even so shall your word be
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  Speaker 2: that goes forth from your mouth. It shall accomplish the
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  Speaker 2: purpose for which you sent it, and it will never
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  Speaker 2: return empty and void of purpose. And so, our Father,
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  Speaker 2: we bow before you. We bow before your word. We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for those many men and women who wear
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  Speaker 2: the uniform of our country and of our allies' country.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for their presence in places we will never
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  Speaker 2: be and in situations we will never find ourselves. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for each one. Some teach, some fight. All are
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  Speaker 2: in training. Some are on the ships of the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Some are in the vessels of the air. Some are
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  Speaker 2: in caves and dens of the earth. Some are in
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  Speaker 2: lonely and desolate places. Some in the midst of bustling cities.
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  Speaker 2: But they're in your hand. For there is no way
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  Speaker 2: to remove ourselves from your presence. So we praise your name.
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  Speaker 2: We give to you today because you're deserving of all
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  Speaker 2: that we have. You own it all. And out of
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  Speaker 2: your provisions, we have the privilege, we have the joy
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  Speaker 2: of giving as you have taught us to give. Faithfully
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  Speaker 2: and joyfully and generously. Our Father, we praise your spirit
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  Speaker 2: for his work as you enlighten and guide us through
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  Speaker 2: his presence. Thank you for his convicting ministries. that has
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  Speaker 2: brought all of us to a saving understanding, we who
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  Speaker 2: have come to Christ, and his work of convicting among those,
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  Speaker 2: even in our midst, who have not yet met the Savior.
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  Speaker 2: But most of all, as you have instructed us, we
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  Speaker 2: hail your Son's name. We hail his presence. We hail
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  Speaker 2: his perfection. We hail his work finished on the cross.
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  Speaker 2: And now we hail your power. May the Son's power
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  Speaker 2: be preeminent in our minds, our Father, as we give
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  Speaker 2: to you and as we focus on him. In his
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  Speaker 2: powerful name, we pray. And all God's people said, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 1: Job's story, be sure to purchase a copy of our
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  Speaker 1: Searching the Scriptures Bible Study Workbook by going to insight.org
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  Speaker 1: slash offer. Chuck titled today's message, What Job Teaches Us
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  Speaker 1: About Our God.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you struggle with absolute sovereignty. It's probably because
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  Speaker 2: you have not faced a cataclysmic experience. Christians who go
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  Speaker 2: through what I would call a cataclysmic test have little
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  Speaker 2: trouble ultimately with grasping and embracing God's absolute sovereignty. I'll
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  Speaker 2: show you an example. Turn ahead to the book of Daniel.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter 4 is a story of a man who is
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  Speaker 2: full of himself. He's the king of Babylon, which would
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  Speaker 2: be much like the land of Iraq today. You could
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  Speaker 2: make your own analogies, but Nebuchadnezzar is his name. He
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  Speaker 2: believed he was responsible. for the kingdom as it was,
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  Speaker 2: for the buildings as they had been built, for the
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  Speaker 2: gardens as they stood, for the beauty of the waterfalls,
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  Speaker 2: for the wonderful pools that had been dug, for the
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  Speaker 2: water that flowed, for the people that lived, for all
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  Speaker 2: of life as it appeared in the land of Babylon.
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  Speaker 2: And he said so. Nebuchadnezzar saw himself as all sovereign.
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  Speaker 2: And he said so. Toward the end of the chapter...
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  Speaker 2: Verse 29, after an encounter with Daniel, who prophesied this
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  Speaker 2: would happen, Nebuchadnezzar, 12 months later, was walking on the roof,
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  Speaker 2: chapter 4, verse 29. He was walking on the roof
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  Speaker 2: of the royal palace of Babylon. He's observing all of
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  Speaker 2: this kingdom that his eye can see. And the king
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  Speaker 2: reflected and said, now feel the arrogance as it drips
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  Speaker 2: out out of verse 30. Is this not Babylon the great,
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  Speaker 2: which I myself have built as a royal residence by
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  Speaker 2: the might of my power and for the glory of
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  Speaker 2: my majesty? While the word was in the king's mouth,
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  Speaker 2: a voice came from heaven saying, King Nebuchadnezzar, to you
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  Speaker 2: it is declared, sovereignty has been removed from you It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't stop there. The voice continues. You will be driven
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  Speaker 2: away from mankind and your dwelling place will be with
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  Speaker 2: the beasts of the field. You will be given grass
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  Speaker 2: to eat like cattle and seven periods of time will
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  Speaker 2: pass over you until you recognize. Let me say it again.
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  Speaker 2: Until you recognize that the most high is ruler over
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  Speaker 2: the realm of mankind and bestows it that is sovereignty
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  Speaker 2: on whomever he wishes. Immediately, remember God's purposes are never
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  Speaker 2: cut off, never thwarted. Immediately after the voice came from heaven,
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  Speaker 2: judgment fell. The worst or the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled.
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  Speaker 2: He was driven away from mankind, began eating grass like cattle.
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  Speaker 2: His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until
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  Speaker 2: his Pause and imagine that. The man who walked on
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  Speaker 2: the roof of the palace is now grazing in the
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  Speaker 2: field outside the walls of the palace. For seven years,
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  Speaker 2: I take it. His hair grows long, of course, and
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  Speaker 2: his nails curl and twist like bird's claws. He is insane.
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  Speaker 2: He once had his faculties. He once was able to
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  Speaker 2: speak the words. I read no words that he spoke.
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  Speaker 2: He's eating like a beast in the field. He's grazing.
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  Speaker 2: He's living in the elements of the land. He is nothing. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Because the sovereign God of heaven said, that's enough. Curtains.
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  Speaker 2: And he's there all that period of time. I call
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  Speaker 2: that a cataclysmic experience. Yours will not be that dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: Though you may go through deep, deep battles. Emotionally, you
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  Speaker 2: may go off the end. Physically, you may have what
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  Speaker 2: we call in our language a breakdown. Both may occur.
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  Speaker 2: You may lose so much of what you had and
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  Speaker 2: count it on. You will go through whatever it takes
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  Speaker 2: for you to understand what Nebuchadnezzar realized. Now watch what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 34, at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar,
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  Speaker 2: what does that tell you? He picked up the pen
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  Speaker 2: or he asked Daniel maybe, may I write this part
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  Speaker 2: since it's my part of the journal? Can I write
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  Speaker 2: what happened to me? I know better than you or anyone. I, Nebuchadnezzar,
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  Speaker 2: raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me.
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  Speaker 2: Pause right there. He's in the field. He looks up
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  Speaker 2: from the grass, and by the grace of God, he
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  Speaker 2: sees what he had never seen before in his life.
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  Speaker 2: I looked up. My reason returned to me. I blessed
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  Speaker 2: the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in my Bible, it turns to a meter. It's as
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  Speaker 2: if he's writing a poem. or a song as he
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  Speaker 2: lifts his praise, singing praises to his name, lifting his
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  Speaker 2: voice in glory of the one who has full control
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  Speaker 2: over his life and all things around him. And he
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  Speaker 2: describes the God of heaven. His dominion is an everlasting dominion.
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  Speaker 2: His kingdom endures from generation to generation. Verse 35 is
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  Speaker 2: one of my all-time favorite verses in the Bible. I
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  Speaker 2: have several of them, but this is one of them.
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  Speaker 2: All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing.
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  Speaker 2: He does according to his will in the host of
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  Speaker 2: heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. No one
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  Speaker 2: can ward off his hand. That's another way of saying thwart.
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  Speaker 2: No one can stop him. No one can restrain him.
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  Speaker 2: No one can ward off his hand or say to him,
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  Speaker 2: what have you done? At that time, my reason returned
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  Speaker 2: to me. Back to Job 42. As I say, I repeat,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I would call cataclysmic. Job has not been insane,
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  Speaker 2: but he has come through a maddening period of loss
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  Speaker 2: and humiliation, grief and disease. He has been leveled to
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  Speaker 2: the place of a homeless man, having been the greatest
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  Speaker 2: of the men in the east. Having gone through it,
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  Speaker 2: Job is now beginning to realize, even without his questions answered,
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  Speaker 2: he is at the mercy of his great God who
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  Speaker 2: does all things well. And even though he may not
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  Speaker 2: explain himself in his actions, he knows he can trust
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  Speaker 2: his God. Which brings us to a third. God's plans
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  Speaker 2: are beyond our understanding And too deep to explain. God's
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  Speaker 2: plans are beyond our understanding. And too deep to explain.
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  Speaker 2: See how Job puts it in verse 3. I have
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  Speaker 2: declared that which I did not understand. Things too wonderful
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  Speaker 2: for me. Which I did not know. That took some
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  Speaker 2: humility to say that. Here now and I will speak.
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  Speaker 2: I will ask you. If you ask me to give
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  Speaker 2: you the core message of the book of Job, I'd
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  Speaker 2: give you chapter 42 and verse 3. Coming to an
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  Speaker 2: understanding that God's plans are beyond our understanding and too
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  Speaker 2: deep to explain. Now let me pause and shock some
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  Speaker 2: of you with a statement. That'll wake you up. There
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  Speaker 2: are times we are just downright disappointed with God. We
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  Speaker 2: are just disappointed. I mean, after all, we have done
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  Speaker 2: this or we have done that, and God has revealed
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  Speaker 2: himself as good and fair and compassionate and loving. And
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  Speaker 2: look at what has happened in light of this. In
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  Speaker 2: the book, Disappointment with God, we read, I can think
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  Speaker 2: of several helpful things God could have said Job, I'm
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  Speaker 2: truly sorry about what's happened. You've endured many unfair trials
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  Speaker 2: on my behalf, and I'm proud of you. You don't
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  Speaker 2: know what this means to me and even to the universe.
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  Speaker 2: A few brief compliments, a dose of compassion, or at
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  Speaker 2: the least a brief explanation of what transpired behind the
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  Speaker 2: curtain in the unseen world, any of these would have
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  Speaker 2: given Job some solace. God says nothing of the kind.
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  Speaker 2: His reply, in fact, consists of more questions than answers.
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  Speaker 2: Sidestepping 35 chapters worth of debates on the problem of pain,
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  Speaker 2: he plunges instead into a magnificent verbal tour of the
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  Speaker 2: natural world. He seems to guide Job through a private
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  Speaker 2: gallery of his favorite works, lingering with pride over dioramas
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  Speaker 2: of mountain goats, wild donkeys, ostriches, and eagles, speaking as
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  Speaker 2: if astonished by his own creations. The beauty of the
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  Speaker 2: poetry at the end of Job reveals or rivals anything
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  Speaker 2: in world literature. Even as I marvel at God's dazzling
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  Speaker 2: portrayal of the natural world, however, a sense of bewilderment
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  Speaker 2: steals in. Of all moments, why did God choose this
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  Speaker 2: one to give Job a course in wilderness appreciation? Are
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  Speaker 2: these words relevant? Stay with him. In his book, Wishful Thinking,
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  Speaker 2: Frederick Buechner sums up God's speech. God doesn't explain, he explodes.
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  Speaker 2: He asks Job who he thinks he is anyway. He
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  Speaker 2: says that to try to explain the kind of things
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  Speaker 2: Job once explained would be like trying to explain Einstein
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  Speaker 2: to a little neck clam. God doesn't reveal his grand design,
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  Speaker 2: he reveals himself. The message behind the splendid vision Poetry
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  Speaker 2: boils down to this. Until you know a little more
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  Speaker 2: about running the physical universe, Job, don't tell me how
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  Speaker 2: to run the moral universe. Why are you treating me
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  Speaker 2: so unfairly, God? Job has whined throughout the book. Put
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  Speaker 2: yourself in my place. No! No! God thunders in reply.
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  Speaker 2: You put yourself in my place. until you can offer
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  Speaker 2: lessons on how to make the sun come up each day,
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  Speaker 2: or where to scatter lightning bolts, or how to design
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  Speaker 2: a hippopotamus. Don't judge how I run the world. Just
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  Speaker 2: shut up and listen. The impact of God's speech is
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  Speaker 2: almost as amazing as the speech itself. Although God never
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  Speaker 2: answers question one about Job's predicament, the blast from the
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  Speaker 2: storm flattens Job. He repents in dust and ashes. and
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  Speaker 2: every trace of disappointment with God is swept away. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: God doesn't explain himself because knowing and understanding his way
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  Speaker 2: may not help us that much. Does knowing why really
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  Speaker 2: help us all that much? Is the pain decreased by
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  Speaker 2: knowing the cause? In a world filled with catastrophes, random
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  Speaker 2: shootings of cowardly snipers, crashing big planes into tall buildings,
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  Speaker 2: deliberately poisoning elderly people at rest homes, serial rapists and murderers,
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  Speaker 2: mothers who kill their kids, African famines, priests who molest
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  Speaker 2: innocent little boys, preachers who are fraudulent and phony, CEOs
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  Speaker 2: who take unfair advantage of their employees. How could God
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  Speaker 2: even permit that? Would it help to know why? Would
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  Speaker 2: it change the wrong? I'll go a step further, maybe
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  Speaker 2: because we're incapable of comprehending his answers. Since he lives
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  Speaker 2: in a world that is higher than ours, and in
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  Speaker 2: a realm beyond our realm, ours being tactile and limited
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  Speaker 2: by space and time, and the elements about us, physical
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  Speaker 2: elements like gravity, limitations of our ability mentally, remember, remember,
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  Speaker 2: We cannot apply our simplistic rules of life on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth to the God of the heavens. Nor should we.
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  Speaker 2: What bothers us is that he doesn't act like we
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  Speaker 2: think he ought to act. He doesn't do what our
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  Speaker 2: Father would have done who loved us and would have
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  Speaker 2: given himself for. Where was he when this happened? He
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  Speaker 2: was at the same place he was when the Savior
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  Speaker 2: was lifted up on the cross to die. He was
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  Speaker 2: there all the time. as the process was running its course.
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  Speaker 2: And the most disillusioned people on the planet at that
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  Speaker 2: time were the followers of Jesus, called the disciples, wondering
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  Speaker 2: how in the world they could have believed in a hoax.
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  Speaker 2: Because from their little, well, little neck clam perspective, life
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  Speaker 2: didn't make sense. You know what Job sees? Job sees God.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't see answers. He doesn't need answers. He has
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  Speaker 2: now gotten a glimpse of the Almighty. And that's sufficient.
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  Speaker 2: Still troubled? Number four. Only through God's instruction are we
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  Speaker 2: able to humble ourselves and rest. Only through God's instruction
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  Speaker 2: are we able to humble ourselves and rest. Where do
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  Speaker 2: I get that? Into verse 4 down through verse 6.
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  Speaker 2: I will ask you and you instruct me. Oh God,
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  Speaker 2: I will ask you. You reveal to me whatever it
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  Speaker 2: is I need to know about yourself and about these circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: I have heard of you with the hearing of the ear.
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  Speaker 2: Now my eye sees you. Therefore, I've got an argument. No. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: I retract and repent. And there's no force. There's no
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  Speaker 2: threat that says, Job, you don't get out on your
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  Speaker 2: knees and beg for mercy from me. Then I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to zap you forever. There's none of that. Job's talking.
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  Speaker 2: He says, you instruct me. And as a result of
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  Speaker 2: your instruction, I will willingly submit. and accept it. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I love about that? Listen to this very carefully.
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  Speaker 2: There is no attitude of my rights. There is no
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  Speaker 2: sense of entitlement. There is no expectation or demand. There's
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  Speaker 2: not even a plea. And there's no longer any argument,
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  Speaker 2: any moody, depressed kind of spirit. You say, well, if
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  Speaker 2: God had blessed me like he blessed Job, I'd say
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  Speaker 2: that too.
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  Speaker 1: Wait!
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  Speaker 2: He's still covered with boils. He doesn't have any kids.
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  Speaker 2: He's still homeless. He's still lost everything. And he says
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  Speaker 2: this to his God who hasn't yet said, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to bless you in a double manner than you were
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  Speaker 2: blessed at the beginning of the story. Job simply says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm yours. Peter writes, humble yourself under the mighty hand
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  Speaker 2: of God and he will exalt you at the proper time.
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  Speaker 2: Get the timing. Not after he exalts you humble. He
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  Speaker 2: says humble now. Don't wait. Repent and rest in him.
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  Speaker 2: And it is remarkable how he will transport you to
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  Speaker 2: a realm of of trust you've never had before, even
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  Speaker 2: with the answers missing. The philosopher of the humanist world
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  Speaker 2: demands an answer. The believer who has now learned through
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  Speaker 2: this kind of cataclysmic experience to trust demands nothing any further.
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  Speaker 2: Remember my comment about repentance? Contrite heart makes no demands
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  Speaker 2: and has no expectations. Makes no demands and has no expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Job has no demands and has no expectations.
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  Speaker 1: A contrite heart makes no demands. It carries no list
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  Speaker 1: of expectations, no argument left to win. Today on Insight
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  Speaker 1: for Living, Chuck Swindoll showed us that Job came to
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  Speaker 1: that place while he was still covered in boils, still
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  Speaker 1: without answers. And there, stripped of everything, he finally rested
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  Speaker 1: in his God. Maybe you're in a crisis a lot
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  Speaker 1: like Job's, and perhaps you've come to the end of
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  Speaker 1: yourself and realized there's nothing left to do but trust
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  Speaker 1: in God. Tomorrow, Chuck will continue his message called What
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  Speaker 1: Job Teaches Us About Our God. And he'll remind us
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes the answers we seek never come. And in
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  Speaker 1: those moments of silence and searching, God is calling on
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  Speaker 1: us to trust him, rest in him, and sit in
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  Speaker 1: his presence. This is the very last message in Chuck's
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  Speaker 1: 22-part series on Job that concludes tomorrow. So this is
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  Speaker 1: the very last time I'll mention the bundle of resources
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  Speaker 1: for this biographical series called Job, A Man of Heroic Endurance.
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  Speaker 1: In the bundle, you'll receive the Searching the Scriptures Bible
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  Speaker 1: Study Workbook, the complete collection of Chuck's sermons on 22 CDs,
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  Speaker 1: and Chuck's full-length biographical book on Job. You can find
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  Speaker 1: all the details at insight.org slash offers. Or you can
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  Speaker 1: call and speak with one of our ministry reps at 800-772-8888.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday of.
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  Speaker 1: This week, Chuck begins a brand new study that's never
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  Speaker 1: been shared on Insight for Living. The Gospel according to
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  Speaker 1: Mark describes Jesus on the move, not as a king,
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  Speaker 1: but as a servant to all. Mark 10 45 says,
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  Speaker 1: For even the Son of Man came not to be served,
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  Speaker 1: but to serve others and give his life as a
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  Speaker 1: ransom for many. For details on this study on Mark
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  Speaker 1: or the bundle of resources for Job, call us at
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  Speaker 1: 800-772-8888 or go to insight.org slash offer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Bill Meyer.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindoll presents his final message in the series called Job,
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  Speaker 1: a Man of Heroic Endurance. Tuesday on Insight for Living.
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  Speaker 1: The preceding message, What Job Teaches Us About Our God,
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  Speaker 1: was copyrighted in 2002, 2004, 2009, 2025, and 2026, and
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  Speaker 1: the sound recording was copyrighted in 2026.
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  Speaker 2: By Charles R. Swindoll, Inc.
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  Speaker 1: All rights are reserved worldwide. Duplication of copyrighted material for
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  Speaker 1: commercial use is strictly prohibited.