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Responding Wisely When Falsely Accused, Part 1 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Has anyone ever said something about you that simply wasn't true?
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Speaker 1: Something unfair, unjust, maybe even cruel. And no matter how
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Speaker 1: hard you tried to set the record straight, the words
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Speaker 1: kept spreading like a slow poison you couldn't stop. If
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Speaker 1: you've ever been falsely accused, you know there's a particular
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Speaker 1: kind of pain that cuts deeper than almost anything else
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Speaker 1: life throws at you. Today on Insight for Living, Chuck
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Speaker 1: Swindoll takes us deep into the book of Job, where
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Speaker 1: a suffering man faced vicious accusations, but responded with grace.
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Speaker 2: There's no more treacherous enemy in the church than the tongue.
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Speaker 2: The tongue. What we say often cuts far deeper than truth.
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Speaker 2: Any sword, any knife. Scripture sometimes presents the tongue as
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Speaker 2: a sword that thrusts its way into others' lives and
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Speaker 2: brings hurt. We're not surprised to read that in the
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Speaker 2: list of the Ten Commandments, one of them includes, you
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Speaker 2: shall not bear false witness against your neighbors. When God
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Speaker 2: led Solomon to write the Proverbs, he included the seven
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Speaker 2: things that he hates. Among them, a false witness that
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Speaker 2: speaks lies. I can't speak for you. I can speak
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Speaker 2: for a few whom I know, but for most of you,
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Speaker 2: I have no idea what you are living with as
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Speaker 2: it relates to someone else's tongue. But if you have
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Speaker 2: been spoken against, Unfairly, unjustly, if you have been falsely accused,
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Speaker 2: you understand real pain. Often you find yourself at a
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Speaker 2: loss to know how to defend yourself. You try, but
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Speaker 2: frequently false witnesses aren't there to listen. They're just busy
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Speaker 2: talking and spreading the venom, which has a way of
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Speaker 2: poisoning people. Not only a few people, but can even
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Speaker 2: poison a church. I heard a terrific story that I'll
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Speaker 2: never forget. There was this young pastor who went to
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Speaker 2: a church that had been split apart in so many ways,
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Speaker 2: but especially by a loose tongue that had been allowed
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Speaker 2: and And the church had pretty well reduced to just
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Speaker 2: a bare survival. And this young man arrived and decided
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Speaker 2: to open his Bible and just preach truth. And he
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Speaker 2: did that. Slowly but surely, the church began to grow.
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Speaker 2: And before long, it was in a growth spurt. And finally,
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Speaker 2: it was bulging at the seams. And they went to
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Speaker 2: multiple services. And it was obvious that they needed to build. Well,
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Speaker 2: the new worship center was going to cost a million dollars.
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Speaker 2: And they didn't have a lot of money, though they
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Speaker 2: certainly needed the building. It so happened that in this
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Speaker 2: church were two brothers, and they were real rascals. They
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Speaker 2: were just sort of sorry individuals. The problem is they
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Speaker 2: were rich. One of them died. The surviving brother came
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Speaker 2: to the pastor in his study one day, and he said, here,
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Speaker 2: I have something for you. It's a million dollar check
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Speaker 2: to pay for the new building. But when you preach
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Speaker 2: my brother's funeral, all I ask you to do is
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Speaker 2: to tell people that he was a saint. That's all
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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to do. Pastor thought for a moment
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Speaker 2: and said, okay, took the check, deposited it. Don't forget
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Speaker 2: that's part of the story. Funeral came at about four
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Speaker 2: or five days and pastor stood up and coffin was
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Speaker 2: here and pastor begins to address the subject of the
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Speaker 2: man who has died and he says this man was
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Speaker 2: a reprobate he was unfaithful to his family he was
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Speaker 2: dishonest in his business he was not a man that
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Speaker 2: you could trust he was part of the reason that
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Speaker 2: this church could not get off the ground for a
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Speaker 2: number of years but compared to his brother he was
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Speaker 2: a saint There are several ways to tell the truth,
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Speaker 2: and he chose that way. I was surprised to find
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Speaker 2: how often false accusations appear through the scriptures. When you
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Speaker 2: study the Bible, as many of us do, you often
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Speaker 2: don't track certain subjects through it. It's always enlightening when
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Speaker 2: you do. I found, for example, that a man as
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Speaker 2: pure as Joseph who had learned a new language and
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Speaker 2: earned his way in Potiphar's house to a place of
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Speaker 2: real responsibility as the man over all of Potiphar's belongings. Joseph,
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Speaker 2: at the height of his career, was falsely accused of
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Speaker 2: rape by Potiphar's wife and wound up in jail. How unfair.
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Speaker 2: How unfair. Moses, who was faithful even at the age
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Speaker 2: of 80 to obey God's call and to take the
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Speaker 2: call from the burning bush back to Egypt and deliver
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Speaker 2: the people from bondage. And in the middle of the wilderness,
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Speaker 2: the people he had delivered turned on him and falsely
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Speaker 2: accused him of bringing them into the wilderness to die.
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Speaker 2: How unfair. David, after killing the giant and truly showing
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Speaker 2: himself a man of courage and integrity, is falsely accused
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Speaker 2: of trying to dethrone Saul by Saul himself. And David
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Speaker 2: is on the run for a dozen or more years,
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Speaker 2: falsely accused of something that was not at all true. Nehemiah,
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Speaker 2: who builds the wall around broken Jerusalem and God uses
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Speaker 2: him to Incite the people to work. And after the
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Speaker 2: wall is almost finished, the word is spread around by
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Speaker 2: his enemies that really Nehemiah has an ulterior motive. He's
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Speaker 2: building the wall so that he can get behind the
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Speaker 2: wall and become the new king of the Jews. Something
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Speaker 2: that was not true at all. How unfair for that
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Speaker 2: to be said of Nehemiah. Peter and John were accused
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Speaker 2: of preaching lies. of a false Christ, and it was
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Speaker 2: a false accusation, and they were beaten for it. Paul,
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Speaker 2: accused of being a phony convert, the apostles wouldn't even
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Speaker 2: let him in their circle because they were convinced that
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Speaker 2: he was not genuinely born again. And then accused of
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Speaker 2: causing a dissension among all the Jews around the whole world.
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Speaker 2: How exaggerated can you get? Accused by Festus, the governor,
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Speaker 2: of being insane. because of his much learning how false
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Speaker 2: that accusation was. Few men ever who believed in the
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Speaker 2: Lord Jesus more brilliant than Paul. And then who could
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Speaker 2: ever overlook Jesus, a man of sorrows and acquainted with
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Speaker 2: grief and many false accusations. I don't know if you've
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Speaker 2: stopped to think about it, but from his earliest years,
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Speaker 2: he was accused of being of illegitimate birth. They had
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Speaker 2: words for it then, too. And accused of being an evildoer,
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Speaker 2: accused of being a drunkard because he spent time with sinners,
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Speaker 2: accused of being demon-possessed and satanic in origin as he
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Speaker 2: healed people, accused of breaking the Sabbath. In fact, he
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Speaker 2: went to the cross falsely accused of being guilty of tyranny,
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Speaker 2: of leading the people against God. the Roman ruler, Caesar.
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Speaker 2: Not guilty of any of it. We're not surprised when
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Speaker 2: he preaches his great sermon on the mount that he
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Speaker 2: includes words like this. Blessed are you when people insult
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Speaker 2: you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you,
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Speaker 2: for your reward in heaven is great. I don't know
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Speaker 2: where you are, as I said earlier, but if you
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Speaker 2: are being falsely accused, There's your promise. Your reward will
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Speaker 2: be great. Your reward someday will be great. But let
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Speaker 2: me add, your misery for now will be enormous. You
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Speaker 2: will find that frequently you are unable to sufficiently defend yourself.
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Speaker 2: A mind made up is a hard thing to persuade.
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Speaker 2: And people who are false accusers are awfully persuasive. Before
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Speaker 2: I go any further, let me just add here, be
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Speaker 2: awfully careful about what you say of other people. Be
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Speaker 2: awfully careful, especially if it's negative. I was reading one
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Speaker 2: of my favorite authors this week, and he said that
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Speaker 2: he has a friend who prayed every day, Lord, help
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Speaker 2: me not add to anyone else's burdens. Not a good prayer.
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Speaker 2: Help me not make life harder for anyone else. Well,
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Speaker 2: we shouldn't be surprised in the middle of our study
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Speaker 2: on Job, and isn't this getting to be fun? Here
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Speaker 2: we are, in the middle of Job, and we've come
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Speaker 2: to false accusations. I mean, what else is there? The
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Speaker 2: guy's lost everything. Home, ranch, cattle, the ability to earn
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Speaker 2: a living, all ten children. He's sitting in the garbage
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Speaker 2: dump of the land of Uz, and he is with
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Speaker 2: shaved head and losing his appetite, raging with a fever,
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Speaker 2: covered with sores, and along come these three Clowns that
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Speaker 2: left for the purpose of comforting him, but a week
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Speaker 2: after staring at him and not believing their eyes, they
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Speaker 2: decided nobody who suffers like this can be anything but wicked.
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Speaker 2: So every one of them has the same thesis. Sin
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Speaker 2: leads to suffering. Suffering proves sinfulness. You are suffering a lot.
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Speaker 2: It means you are one wicked man. You are one
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Speaker 2: bad dude. If you weren't, you wouldn't be suffering like this.
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Speaker 2: By the way, there are some people who still have
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Speaker 2: that same idea. Maybe not that severe or brash, but
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Speaker 2: they think that. They think everybody ought to be well.
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Speaker 2: That it's God's will that everybody be well. That every
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Speaker 2: sickness be healed. That's why they line up in healing lines.
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Speaker 2: That's part of the reason that they follow people who
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Speaker 2: claim to be healers. Because your sickness need not be.
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Speaker 2: And I'm here to say that there are times sickness
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Speaker 2: is so clearly sent from God and permitted by Him,
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Speaker 2: it almost takes my breath away. We are not all
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Speaker 2: promised healing. Please do not live a disillusioned life thinking
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Speaker 2: if you pray hard enough or if you give enough
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Speaker 2: money or if you are sincere enough, then your loved
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Speaker 2: one is going to get well. Your loved one will
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Speaker 2: get well by the sovereign grace of God or your
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Speaker 2: loved one may die by the sovereign plan of God.
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Speaker 2: Suffering does not mean sinfulness. Well, I wish Zophar were
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Speaker 2: here to Hear this message. He's the man we're having
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Speaker 2: to endure for the 20th chapter here in the book
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Speaker 2: of Job. He is not a happy camper. Okay? This
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Speaker 2: is in the dialogue section of the book, Act 2,
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Speaker 2: Scene 3. Eliphaz has spoken, Bildad has spoken, then Zophar spoke.
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Speaker 2: That's Act 1. Scene one of act two, Eliphaz speaks
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Speaker 2: and Bildad speaks, and now we're to Zophar again. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of like a tag team match, three against one.
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Speaker 2: And one is very sick. And the longer he's with
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Speaker 2: these three men, the sicker he gets. Zophar says, verse two,
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Speaker 2: he is disquieted. Verse two, last word, he is agitated.
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Speaker 2: Verse three, he is insulting. Now, I don't find anything
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Speaker 2: that's disquieting, agitating, or insulting by what Job has said.
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Speaker 2: except he disagrees with them. By the way, that is,
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Speaker 2: I've got a lot of by the ways this morning,
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Speaker 2: don't I? I'm going to put it another way. On
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Speaker 2: the other hand, people who have a message to deliver
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Speaker 2: but they don't want to learn are often disquieted, agitated,
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Speaker 2: and insulted when you stand against them. They don't want
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Speaker 2: to hear, they want to tell. They don't want to learn,
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Speaker 2: they want to instruct and usually lecture Zophar has three
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Speaker 2: things he wants to say to Job, and he says
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Speaker 2: them in an exaggerated manner. Number one, the wicked do
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Speaker 2: not live long, verses 4 to 11. The wicked don't
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Speaker 2: live long. Second, the pleasures of the wicked are temporal.
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Speaker 2: The pleasures of wickedness are temporal, 12 to 19, and
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Speaker 2: then the last, 20 to 29, God's judgment always falls
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Speaker 2: hard on the wicked. There's only one problem with those
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Speaker 2: three points. They're all wrong. When you take them as
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Speaker 2: Zophar says them. You see, understand the way Zophar is
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Speaker 2: delivering his talk. He's coloring by the numbers. His numbers.
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Speaker 2: And everything is a very clear distinction. Everything is very
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Speaker 2: simplistically stated. So that Zophar would add always to his comments.
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Speaker 2: The wicked don't live long. And he says this in
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Speaker 2: 4 through 11. The pleasures of wickedness are temporary. 12
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Speaker 2: to 19. God's judgment always falls hard on the wicked.
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Speaker 2: 20 to 29. That's not necessarily true, as Job is
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Speaker 2: going to point out. But just a few minutes. Let's
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Speaker 2: kind of work our way through this vomit. Look at
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Speaker 2: verse 4. Do you know this from of old, from
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Speaker 2: the establishment of man on earth, that the triumphing of
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Speaker 2: the wicked is short? The joy of the godless is momentary. Now,
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Speaker 2: I want you to think, by the way, men and women,
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Speaker 2: I don't want you to just say, because it's in there,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to believe it. Job doesn't do that. This
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Speaker 2: is Zophar's opinion. And he's been waiting his turn to
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Speaker 2: set Job straight. He sees Job as wicked, and he
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Speaker 2: is here to tell him that he's not going to
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Speaker 2: live very long. In fact, he says, verse 7, he
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Speaker 2: perishes forever like his refuse. Those who have seen him
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Speaker 2: will realize quickly he's gone. Where is he? They will ask.
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Speaker 2: He flies away like a dream. They can't find him.
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Speaker 2: Like a vision in the night, he is chased away.
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Speaker 2: It's gone. That's the way it is sometime at night.
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Speaker 2: I said to Cynthia this morning, I dreamed all night
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Speaker 2: and I cannot tell you what I dreamed. She said,
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Speaker 2: isn't that good? And I said, it is. It is.
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Speaker 2: The problem is you often remember your dreams and they
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Speaker 2: are They're really wild. I mean, they'd make Picasso look
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Speaker 2: like first grade. I mean, you've got ears on a
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Speaker 2: nose and you've got people flying. And so I dreamed
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Speaker 2: all night and they're all gone. And she's right. I'm glad.
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Speaker 2: I don't even remember them. They're wild. He's saying your
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Speaker 2: life is like that. It's twisted up. It's strange. It's weird.
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Speaker 2: And poof, you're gone. People can't find you because you're wicked.
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Speaker 2: You're going to die soon. Verse 11 closes, it lies
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Speaker 2: down with him in the dust. That youthful vigor is gone.
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Speaker 2: He's not talking about natural causes. He's talking about God's judgment.
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Speaker 2: Because you've lived like you've lived, because you've kept the
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Speaker 2: secrets from us, and because we all thought you were righteous,
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Speaker 2: but you're so sick, it's obvious that you're suffering. It's
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Speaker 2: obvious that you're sinful, and you're going to die. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's a nice hospital visit, isn't it? You're standing there
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Speaker 2: by a guy that's just miserable, and you're there to say,
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Speaker 2: you're going to die sooner than you think. Look at
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Speaker 2: verses 12 to 19. The pleasures of wickedness are very temporal.
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Speaker 2: Evil is sweet in his mouth. He hides it under
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Speaker 2: his tongue. Though he desires it and will not let
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Speaker 2: it go, holds it in his mouth. And then he
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Speaker 2: uses the analogy of food and of eating. Food in
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Speaker 2: his stomach is changed to the venom of cobras within him.
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Speaker 2: He swallows riches but will vomit them up. God will
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Speaker 2: expel them from his belly. He sucks the poison of cobras.
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Speaker 2: The viper's tongue slays him. He cannot swallow this food,
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Speaker 2: verse 18. And look at the accusation in verse 19.
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Speaker 2: He is really meaning Job. He has oppressed and forsaken
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Speaker 2: the poor. He has seized a house which he has
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Speaker 2: not built. He decides to throw that in for extra measure.
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Speaker 2: He's looking down his nose at Job because of his wealth.
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Speaker 2: That must be one of the secrets you've kept. You've
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Speaker 2: oppressed the poor and you've pushed people out of their houses.
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Speaker 2: And you've taken advantage of them. Your pleasures are over.
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Speaker 2: Your wickedness has caught up with you. I mean, how
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Speaker 2: severe a tongue is this? And God's judgment falls hard.
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Speaker 2: 20 through 29. 26 says, complete darkness is held in
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Speaker 2: reserved hands. And unfanned fire will devour him. It will
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Speaker 2: consume the survivor in his tent. Heavens will reveal his iniquity.
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Speaker 2: The earth will rise up against him. Verse 29. This
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Speaker 2: is the wicked man's portion. You could put Job's name there.
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Speaker 2: That's who Zophar has in mind. This is your portion
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Speaker 2: from God. Even the heritage decreed to you by God. Well,
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Speaker 2: these are the final words of Zophar. One of my
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Speaker 2: commentators that I checked said, this is the last time
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Speaker 2: we hear from Zophar and we will not miss him. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's a pretty good way to put it. Some people,
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Speaker 2: the best thing they do is leave when they've made
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Speaker 2: your life so miserable. They're gone and you go, good riddance.
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Speaker 2: That's the way we feel about Zophar. All of this
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Speaker 2: is not ancient history. This kind of stuff goes on.
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Speaker 2: I don't have any one of you in mind. If
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Speaker 2: I did, I'd talk to you personally. rather than say
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Speaker 2: it publicly, but some of you have awfully sharp tongues.
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Speaker 2: You say things and you couch them in words that
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Speaker 2: sound as nice as Zophar. I mean, this is poetry.
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Speaker 2: This is tough Hebrew, this Hebrew poetry of chapter 20.
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Speaker 2: It sounds even religious at times. We should pray for so-and-so.
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Speaker 2: And then you dump this garbage that's not really founded.
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Speaker 2: You don't know it to be true. But evil report
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Speaker 2: is always more interesting than a good report. That's why
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Speaker 2: the news is full of it. That's why the skies
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Speaker 2: are always partly cloudy, not for the most part clear.
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Speaker 2: They never say that. It's always, well, there's a cloud coming.
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Speaker 2: It should be here by a month and a half
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Speaker 2: from now. It's coming from the west. bad hurricane out
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Speaker 2: there oh really and we're on the edge of our
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Speaker 2: seat we're on tiptoes listening to bad news about somebody
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Speaker 2: you you need to learn to say by the way
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Speaker 2: how do you know that who told you what's your
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Speaker 2: source prove that to me challenge the people who come
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Speaker 2: at you with their forked and sharp tongues that start
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Speaker 2: spreading stuff that doesn't sound right you've got a good
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Speaker 2: brain You got sense? Job doesn't just take this on
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Speaker 2: the chin. He says, wait a minute. Hold on here,
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Speaker 2: eye pockets. I'm not going with you on this. This
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Speaker 2: is not where we're going. I was reading this past
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Speaker 2: week of a minister whose congregation refused to accept his message.
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Speaker 2: True story. He wanted to lead the flock into the
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Speaker 2: truth of the scripture. He wanted to preach the word.
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Speaker 2: He wanted to stand for what was right. They didn't
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Speaker 2: want to be led that way. So happened that his choir,
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Speaker 2: with so many of their habitual ungodly practices, brought things
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Speaker 2: to a head. And position became so unbearable for him,
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Speaker 2: he invited the choir to resign. The choir not only resigned,
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Speaker 2: I'm reading this, but persuaded the congregation to desist from
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Speaker 2: taking part in the singing of on the following Sunday. Okay, everybody,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to sing. So the result was that
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Speaker 2: whatever singing was done had to be done alone by
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Speaker 2: this minister, while the other people stood around and enjoyed
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Speaker 2: his embarrassment. The state of things continued for some time,
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Speaker 2: and the minister was greatly depressed and perplexed at the
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Speaker 2: turn the events had taken. He was at wit's end
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Speaker 2: when God spoke in an unusual way to him. One
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Speaker 2: day he was sitting alone on a bench in a
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Speaker 2: park and he saw a newspaper blow by and he
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Speaker 2: picked up a torn piece from the paper and it
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Speaker 2: bore a message which was exactly what he needed to read.
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Speaker 2: It read, no man is ever fully accepted until he has,
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Speaker 2: first of all, been utterly rejected. He took that to heart.
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Speaker 2: He needed nothing more. He had been utterly rejected for
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Speaker 2: Christ's sake. And his recognition of the fact was the
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Speaker 2: beginning of a most fruitful ministry. Though utterly rejected by man,
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Speaker 2: he had been fully accepted by God. Let me tell you,
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Speaker 2: Job is listening to what my mother used to call
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Speaker 2: a lot of palaver, just a lot of lip banging
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Speaker 2: from Zophar. He's talking, but it's nonsense. It isn't true,
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Speaker 2: even though he says it poetically and beautifully and even convincingly.
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Speaker 2: Job doesn't take it on the chin. Now, some of
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Speaker 2: those that I checked said, no matter what, when false
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Speaker 2: accusations are made, you just sit quietly and say nothing.
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Speaker 2: And God will defend you. Well, sometime I'm sure that's appropriate.
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Speaker 2: Not always. I kind of believe in the American Revolution motto,
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Speaker 2: trust in God, but keep your powder dry. I think
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Speaker 2: if your reputation is being ruined, if your company is
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Speaker 2: going down a tube, if your church is being assaulted
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Speaker 2: and it's because of false stuff being said, some things
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Speaker 2: need to be said in answer to the falsehood.
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Speaker 1: There's a reason the story of Job has endured for
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Speaker 1: thousands of years. His story is our story, and Chuck
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Speaker 1: his message, Responding Wisely When Falsely Accused. When false accusations come,
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Speaker 1: and they will, the temptation is to either lash out
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Speaker 1: just goes away. Job shows us there's a wiser path.
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Speaker 1: Here at Insight for Living, we understand that you may
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Speaker 1: come to this daily program carrying burdens that weigh you down.
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Speaker 1: In fact, maybe you're the recipient of false accusations yourself.
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Speaker 1: You're hurt, you're angry, and you can't seem to rise
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Speaker 1: message and this complete series on Job will provide a
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Speaker 1: daily reassurance that God knows your story. We've produced a
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Speaker 1: variety of creative resources to help you. First, Chuck wrote
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Speaker 1: a full-length biography of Job. It's written like a page-turning novel. Second,
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Speaker 1: the brand-new Searching the Scriptures Bible Study for Job is ready.
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Speaker 1: This spiral-bound Bible study is designed to help you dig
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Speaker 1: all 22 of Chuck's full-length sermons are available on CD
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Speaker 1: You'll find all the details about this bundle of resources
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to give you a heads up on something
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Speaker 1: special that's coming this fall. Behind the scenes, Chuck has
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Speaker 1: slash memoir. That's insight.org slash memoir. Have you ever been
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Speaker 1: falsely accused? I'm Bill Meyer. Chuck Swindoll explains how to
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Speaker 1: respond wisely when someone turns against you. Friday on Insight
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