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Wednesday Evening Message: Zophar's Indictment of Job · CCC West Covina

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Chapter 20 is where we are this evening, this bow for a word of
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prayer together. Father, thank you for today.
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And the chance we have the study, the word.
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You are such a great God. And we are blessed to be able to
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spend a brief moment in the scriptures to understand those
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things you have for us. Lord, we realize that the things
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that you have said in your word speak to us every day and that
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because it's a Living Word. It's something that is always
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applicable. No matter what year we live, no
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matter what culture, we are from the word of God, speaks to all
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of us. It is so great to know that when
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we read it and when we study it and when we memorize it, we're
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able to understand what your word is for us at that time.
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And so Lord, I just pray that you open our hearts and Minds
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tonight to see the things out of your law that will enable us to
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see you for who you are and what you've done.
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Thank you for those who are here.
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We thank you. Lord, that they were here safely
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and pray that their time would be rich for them as they hear
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your word this evening in Jesus name.
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Amen, Job chapter 20, and as you're turning there, you have
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to ask yourself. The question.
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Question is why is it we spend all this time?
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Reading over all these conversations between job.
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And his friends. Why is it?
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We just don't skip over all this.
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Why do we spend all this time week after week after week?
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Listening to what job's friends say when in all reality when we
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get to the end, God's going to say very clearly that the
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friends did not represent me? They did not speak for me.
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In fact they misrepresented me tremendously job. 42 first. 47.
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So if that's the case, why spend all this time looking at this
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conversation, we're God's being misrepresented.
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Why would we do that? well, the Bible tells us that
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all scripture is inspired by God and is profitable.
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They're just not certain books that are inspired, that's all
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inspired, it's all God. Breathed every single word is is
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breathed into existence by God. So when we study the Bible we
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are studying what God has said. So the Bible says that every
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word of God is pure every word of God is true.
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We take that at face value and realize that everything that God
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has said is absolutely true. So there's no portion of
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scripture that's irrelevant to our lives.
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We think it is because we're reading this and you know, and
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I'm not sure that applies to me at this time or I'm not sure
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that's really where I'm at, you know.
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And so I don't see anybody relates to me but it does it all
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does. And that's very, very important
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understand because people read The Book of Leviticus and say I
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don't understand all these rituals and ceremonies and that
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doesn't apply to me. But it's all about Holiness,
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right? The Book of Leviticus is about
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Holiness and so everybody's to be holy as God.
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His holy. So yeah, we say The Book of
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Leviticus because God wants us to be holy like he's holy And
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yet when you read the conversations that job has with
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these so-called friends, It can be very monotonous.
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It can be very repetitive. It can be very insulting.
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So why do we do it? Well, if every word of God is
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inspired and all that inspired word of God is profitable for
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Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in
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righteousness, that the man of God will be thoroughly.
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Furnished equipped for all good works, right?
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There's something here that's going to equip me.
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There's something here that's profitable for me.
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So what is it? That's going to profit me. by
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studying The Book of Job and the conversations that job was
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having that's very important. and so, as we study tonight, for
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instance, you can talk about The brevity of Life For The Wicked
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that will be Point. Number one, or you can talk
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about the temporary pleasure. For the wicked.
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That's Point. Number two.
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Or you could talk about the certainty of judgment upon the
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wicked. That's Point.
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Number three. And all that would be
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applicable. Life is brief.
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Doesn't last very long. Pleasures are temporary in this
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life. They come and go.
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And then there is a certainty that judge was going to come
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from the wicked. so you can learn about those things
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especially when it comes to sharing your faith, with those
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who live Wicked lives and they need to know of the certainty of
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judgement But it goes way beyond that.
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Because you have to understand what's exactly happening in the
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conversations. So, let me introduce it to you
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this way. The greatest destructive force
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in the church. Is the tongue.
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Our speech. Our conversation.
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It is always been the most destructive force.
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In fact, the tongue is like a sword that's driven into the
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side of people's lives and in it, just drives deep into the
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heart and soul of people and causes great damage.
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Especially when what is said. Is not true.
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And what jobs friends are saying is not true.
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In fact, they are giving false accusations against job.
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Now that's very important because we need to understand
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that in our day and age because we need to realize that false
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accusations are very destructive to people in the church.
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But here's Joe right? He's suffering greatly.
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And what is being said to him? Just isn't true.
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So they falsely accuse, the innocent man, they falsely
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accused. The greatest man on the planet
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they falsely accused the blameless upright God-fearing
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man. And they will stop at nothing.
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For him to see it their way. Now, when you think about that,
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think about the people in the Bible that were falsely accused.
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Let's think of Joseph, right. Joseph was sold into slavery.
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By his brothers, went off to Egypt.
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And served in Potiphar's house. The one-day Potiphar's wife
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wanted Joseph. And so she wanted Joseph to lie
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with her. And he would not.
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So, she grabbed his cloak and he ran.
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And she falsely accused him. Of something that wasn't true.
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And Joseph went to prison. She wanted something from, from
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Joseph. And she didn't get it.
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And because she didn't get what she wanted.
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She falsely accused him. He went to prison.
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What about Moses? Israel's greatest leader right
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the great emancipator. Moses at age 80 right at age 80
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the Lord appeared to him in a burning bush and told him hey
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you're going to deliver my people this year.
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I'm coming down to deliver them and you're going to be the
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deliverer and sure enough he did.
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He took them out after those ten plagues.
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He led them out of Egyptian bondage Into the Wilderness and
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guess what? Israel was so upset that they
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falsely accused Israel's greatest leader for bringing
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them out of bondage just so they could die in the wilderness.
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That wasn't true. But the accused him of that
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falsely. That wasn't his motive, not at
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all. But here is Moses Israel's
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greatest leader falsely accused. By the nation here was Joseph,
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nothing in the scriptures is said, bad about Joseph at all.
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He's a great type of Christ in the Old Testament.
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Falsely accused. Went to prison, didn't do
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anything. How about David King?
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David member at 17 years of age. He slew the Giant and the song
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began to ring all throughout Israel, right?
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Saul has slain his thousands but David his ten thousands, and all
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of a sudden, Saul became jealous.
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Angry. So what did he do?
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He falsely accused David of wanting to steal his throne and
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for the next 12 years. David was a fugitive, David was
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on the Run. Because King Saul falsely.
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Accused him. He lied about.
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So, you have Joseph. And Potiphar's wife.
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She wanted something so bad when she didn't get it.
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She was angry. So what did she do?
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She falsely accused Joseph and then you have Moses.
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Great leader of Israel. And all of a sudden the people
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not getting what they want. And when they don't get what
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they want, what do they do? They turn on the leader and they
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falsely accuse him. Here's King David.
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Not the king yet. This is 17 year old kid.
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But he's accused of wanting to steal the throne even though
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that's not his purposes simply because Saul didn't want to lose
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the throne and he was a jealous man.
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It's so jealousy is seen by falsely accusing, those who are
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a threat to you. In the list, goes on.
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How about Nehemiah? The Abaya was sent by God to
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help rebuild the walls around the city of Jerusalem after
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their Babylonian captivity. But he was falsely accused.
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Of wanting to be the next king of Israel, which was so far from
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the truth. But he was falsely accused.
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And then you move on. Look at Peter and John they were
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falsely accused of preaching a false Christ when they were
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preaching the true Christ and because they were falsely
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accused, they were beaten and imprisoned Then, of course, you
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have the great Apostle Paul. Poop on his conversion.
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Was falsely accused of not being a true convert but a phony and
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was later accused of bringing dissension among the Jewish
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Nation. It was a Accused by Governor
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Festus of being insane. All false accusations, none of
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them were true. But yet.
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He was lied about. How about the Christ?
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Right. He was falsely accused.
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He was born. Illegitimately that was an
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accusation. Not true.
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Or how about the fact that he cast out demons by Beelzebub?
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All another words, the things that he did he did because he
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was possessed by Satan. False accusation.
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He was accused of being a drunkard because he was so, she
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ate with, with, with Sinners, not true.
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And upon his trial, there are many false accusations said
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against him that put him on a tree.
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He hung there and died for your sins in mind.
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And what does Christ say, before any of that ever took place?
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He said these words in Matthew Chapter 5 on that first Sermon
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on the Mount there on the Northern slopes of the Sea of
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Galilee. He said these words blessed are
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you when people insult, you persecute you falsely say all
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kinds of evil against you because of me rejoice and be
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glad for your reward in heaven is great for in the same way.
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They persecuted the prophets who were before you You live.
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The beatitude kind of life. You're a peacemaker.
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And you're the kind of person who who who Mourns over to sin
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and is a part of the kingdom of God.
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People will persecute you for righteousness sake.
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They'll falsely accuse you. But Christ says be of good
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cheer. You're a part of good company so
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they persecuted the prophets who were before you in fact he could
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have said and so they persecuted the greatest men on the planet
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job, falsely. Because they did.
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What would possess these men to falsely?
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Accuse job? What would possess these men to
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lie about what's happening with job?
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Because that's what they're doing.
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They're not speaking the truth, that's why the Lord invites him
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at the end. And that's why at the very end
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they have to offer sacrifices. They have to repent because they
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sinned against God and syndicates job.
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And they think they're coming to give Comfort to job and they're
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they're coming with the right motive in the right purpose and
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here they are to sit with him and and to weep with him and to
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pray with him. Although the Bible records, no,
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no prayer with him or for him by them, but here they are.
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Do you know why? Do you know why?
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They falsely accused him. It's because he hated job.
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The hit them. See what that's harsh.
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How can you say that? I didn't say it.
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God did. Let me read it to you.
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Book of Proverbs 26 verse verse 2426 chapter 24 verse He Who
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hates Disguises it with his lips.
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But he lays up the seat. In his heart.
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He use a heater is going to disguise it with his lips.
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In other words, they're going to say things that you want to
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hear, but down deep, they hate you because they have deceived
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them on their, their own selves. But listen to this verse 25.
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When he speaks graciously, do not believe him for there are
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seven Abominations in his heart. Now, you can take that as being
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the Perfection of abomination because seven is the number of
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perfection. So there's a, a perfect
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abomination in the heart or you can go back to Proverbs Chapter
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6, right? About the things that God hates
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and maybe that's the seven Abominations in his heart.
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But it says, there was hatred covers himself with Gaia, whose
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wickedness will be revealed. Before the assembly, he digs a
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pit will fall into it and he rolls a stone.
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It will come back on him. And that's exactly what happens
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to build, dad eliphaz, and zophar.
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They dig a pit for themselves? By falsely, accusing job. 6
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verse. 28. A lying tongue hates those.
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It crushes. There you go.
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Why do people lie? I hate you.
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That's what they like. You have stopped them from
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obtaining something that they want.
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Potiphar's wife nation of Israel.
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King David, I mean assault with David.
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Down deep. They there is hatred in their
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hearts because you have kept them from obtaining something
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they want to obtain. Now, job's friends, would never
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say that they hate each other because we don't hate joke.
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Oh no, you got it all wrong. You're wrong.
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We're here because we love job, we're here because we admire
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Joe, we're here because we're the comforters of job.
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That's why we're here. Hmm, really Then why do you
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falsely accuse him? I've sinned, he never committed.
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Why do you lie about his life? Why?
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Because the Bible says you hate him, I don't care what anybody
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else says, that's your relevant. What does the Bible say?
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That's all that matters. The lying tongue hates the sole
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it crushes. And a flattering mouth.
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Works ruin. That's why the Ten Commandments.
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God says, Thou shalt not bear false.
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Witness against your neighbor, can't lie.
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Can't do that. Over in Proverbs, chapter 17,
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listen to this. Probably 17 verse number 4 and
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evildoer listens to Wicked lips and evildoer listens to weekly.
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And what are these three men doing?
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They're all sitting around listening to the same
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conversation right? And the evildoer listens to
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Wicked lips. A liar pays attention to a
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destructive tongue. In other words what makes me pay
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attention? What perks of my ears?
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Is the same thing that these three guys are they sat around
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job. They all wanted to hear the same
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thing and as the lies began to envelop around job's condition,
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they were thinking about more things that could say about job
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more things, that would accuse them.
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Maybe down deep. They were jealous about how
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popular job was. Maybe they were just because of
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the success of Jobs Family and life, we don't know.
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But what we do know is that when you falsely accuse someone, when
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they didn't do anything, that was wrong, it's because you hate
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them in your heart. and you deceive your own self into
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thinking that you really do love them, but you don't You see, we
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have to go back into, what does the Bible say not?
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How do I feel? What do I think?
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What my opinion is all? That's irrelevant only did it's
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relevant? Is the scriptures?
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What does the Bible say? And these men listened lied,
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falsely accused Joe. That's what makes him the most
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remarkable man in the scriptures because of how he responds to
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all this. This is absolutely phenomenal
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about how job does all this. Because he's able, he's able to
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endure the emotional abuse, the verbal abuse, the false
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accusations. Because he knows his Redeemer
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Lives. He knows one day.
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You'll see him face to face, and he knows in his heart that he
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has not done anything, that he's been accused of, even though
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they just berate him, they come at him.
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One after another, they tag team on top of Joe's back coming back
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one after another one. After another one.
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After another. They just don't want to quit.
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And they're arrogant. The prideful.
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Well, how do we know that look what it says, Job chapter 20
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long introduction to get to where we want to get to verse
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number one? Then so far the name of theit
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answered. Therefore my disquieting
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thoughts make me respond even because of my inward agitation.
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I listened to the reproof which insults me and the spirit of my
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understanding makes me answer. What an arrogant fool.
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This is Le first of all when you're going to go help somebody
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you can't go. If you wear your feelings on
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your sleeve, right? You just can't do that because
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you're going to say something that you don't like they're
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going to respond to you in a way you don't like and then you
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going to get hurt and then you're going to hang your head
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and then you go on to go home now, these guys don't do that.
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No, but he's insulted that somehow they're going to be
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judged and they are going to be judged and God's going to do it.
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The end. but somehow they're insulted and he says this, he
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says, look he says The spirit of my understanding, makes me
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answer the street of my wisdom. I have such wisdom and I'm
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compelled now because I'm so wise to answer you He is the
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person Paul mentions in Galatians chapter 36 verse
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number 3. That says if anyone thinks he is
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something, when he is nothing he deceives himself.
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He thought he was something. But he was nothing.
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He was so deceived. He was so self-deceived because
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he really thought he was all that high, wisdom, and obviously
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job, you don't have any wisdom but I do so I am compelled.
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Now to answer you explain to you your situation once again
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because obviously you didn't get the first time I explain it to
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you. So I'm going to talk to you
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number one, about the brevity of the life of the wicked because
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your life is brief Then to talk to you about the temporary,
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pleasure of the life of the wicked.
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And then we'll talk to you about the certainty of judgment that
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comes upon the wicked because you are bound in term determined
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to be judged by God. Now, that's not true.
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But that's what's so far beliefs.
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You see, they can't get job to agree with them.
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They're frustrated. They can't get joke to acquiesce
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to their whims. They can't get joke to admit.
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Yep, I've sinned. This great, Wicked sin.
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It's caught up to me. The Jig Is up.
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You're right guys. I am what I am.
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I'm a sinner and I'm being punished because of that because
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none of it's true. But they're going to continue to
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berate him and come at him. Any way they possibly can
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because they have to convince him that he is wicked and he
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deserves the Judgment of the wicked.
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So so far says I'm going to speak to you out of my wisdom.
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The first thing he said, addresses is the brevity of Life
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For The Wicked. He says, verse 4.
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Do you know this from of old from the establishment of man on
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Earth that the triumphing of the wicked is short?
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And the joy of the Godless is momentary.
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Jump this way. It's always been for the very
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beginning of time. You need to know this job
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nothing's ever changed that the wickets time of Triumph.
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Is short. And the joy of the Godless is
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momentary. You've had job Joy joke.
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But it's brief. You've had good times job.
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But it's over. That's why you have nothing
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left. Because God is judging you
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though. Is loftiness reaches the heavens
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and his head touches the cloud. Speaking of job, he perishes
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forever like his refuse or like dung.
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Those have seen him will say, where is he?
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He flies away like a dream and they cannot find him even like a
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vision of the night. He is chased away.
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The I would saw him see some no longer and his place no longer
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be holds him, his sons favor the poor, this hands give back as
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well. His bones are full of his
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youthful vigor but it lies down with him in the Dust.
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In other words, job. Listen, it's over.
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You're going to be gone and people can say, where's Joe?
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Where do you go? He's gone.
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Why? Because the sin somehow of your
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youthful vigor? Somehow when you were young, you
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did something that was an abomination.
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And it's going to lie down with you in the dust.
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Because your life is short because you're Wicked.
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That's not true. That's a false accusation.
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That's a lie. Because Wicked people live a
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long time. Think about it.
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I know a lot of wicked people that lived a long time and I do
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a lot of great godly people that died.
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Very, very young, right? So we know it's not true.
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So we moved to the second point which is the the temporary
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pleasure of the wicked and we know that pleasure is very
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temporary. He was 1125 speaks about the
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passing pleasures of sin. So we know that that the
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pleasure of sin never last forever.
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We we get that, we understand that.
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But he's going to apply that to job that the temporary pleasure
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that he has. Is all over now, because you're
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Wicked. Verse 12. though, evil is sweet
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in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue.
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It's not to speak about the attraction of sin.
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You've had a had a piece of candy in your mouth that just is
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so, so good. I love sitting Bears, right?
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And I love that, the, the intensity of that that cinnamon
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in your mouth and I'll suck on those two in a man and and I
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know I just I want to chew them, but I try not to because I love
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stuffed bear so much and I'll put them under my tongue and let
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it sit at sweetness. This just sit there or milk
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doesn't, that's all man. The chocolate-covered Milk.
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Oh man. It just melts in your mouth and
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just let it sit there for a while, right?
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It just is so good. What so far saying is, he's
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applying this to evil and what Wicked people do.
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They love their evil. It's like the candy in the
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tongue that you just want to keep their.
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You want to keep the attraction always before you.
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He says, in in verse number 13, though, he desires it and will
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not let it go. But holds it in his mouth, get
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his food in his stomach is changed to the Venom Of cobras
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within him, he swallows riches, but will vomit them up.
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God will expel them from his belly, the interim assault of
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evil, the end result of sin is loathing, In, this is where
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you're at job. You're at the end and now you
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are experiencing the loathing of your sin.
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So it was great while it was around for a while, but it's
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just temporary pleasure. All the while you were offering
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sacrifices for your children and in all the while you were, you
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were praying for your children. And all the while you were level
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on your wife, there was a sin that just melted in your mouth
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that you were hiding from everybody else again, not true.
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Falsely. Accusing job.
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Verse 16, he sucks. The poison of cobras the Vipers
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tongue, slice them You can dye job.
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The wages of sin is death. There is a way which seemeth,
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right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death,
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not life. It's over job, you're dying.
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The temporary pleasure is finished.
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He does not look at the streams. The rivers flowing with honey
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and Kurds. He returns what he's attained
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it. Cannot swallow it as to the
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riches of his training. He cannot even enjoy them for
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his oppressed and forsaking the poor.
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He has seized the house, which he has not built, not true.
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He didn't do that. He never oppressed the poor.
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He never took from somebody a house.
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In fact, over in chapter 29, these words are said about Job
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verse 12, because I delivered the poor who cried for help Help
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and the orphan who had no helper, the blessing of one
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ready to perish. Came Upon me.
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And I made the Widow's heart sing for joy.
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That in verse number 15 of chapter 29, I was eyes to the
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Blind and feet to the laying. I was a father to the needy and
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I investigated the case which I did not know.
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I mean he was always giving himself away to help people.
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But so far says, you know, what job you stole people's homes to
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make yourself rich? Now look you lost your whole.
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You lost your riches, he lost it all.
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Because you're Wicked. Again.
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A false accusation. Ally and eliphaz and bildad are
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listening to this and this is just fuel for the fire.
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This is just fueling their fire as to what they're going to say
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next, why? Because Liars, love Liars,
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right? They love the destructive words
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that they say because you can few be fueled by that and feed
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off of that and give more fuel to the fire.
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And that's exactly what they're going to do as time goes on.
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You job. So remarkable so fascinating.
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His response is because he responds with truth because what
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silence lies. Truth.
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Truth silence Sciences lies, it always does.
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Truth loves the light. Lies don't like to be exposed
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like to be hidden away, truth loves the light.
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It always wants to be in the light in job will always expose
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them to the light. Because he wanted to know the
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truth. Very important.
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So you come down to verse number 20, he goes from the brevity of
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the life of the wicked to the temporary pleasure for the
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wicked to the certainty of judgement God's judgment upon
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the wicked. Because he knew no quiet within
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him. He does not retain anything.
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He desires. That's the Wicked Man.
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And Joe bet you. There's no peace within you.
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There's no Trend quality within you.
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Isaiah 40 tells us there is no peace for the wicked, right?
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He just saying, you have no peace, you had no peace.
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You were never at peace job because of your sin and
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therefore you do not retain anything that you desire.
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Everything you wanted. You AUST, why?
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cuz, Of your sin. So, nothing remains for him to
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devour their Forest Prosperity, does not endure, you've lost it
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all job in the fullness of his plenty.
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He will be cramped, the hand of everyone who suffers will come
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against him. When he fills his belly, God
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will send his Fierce anger on him and Will Rain it on him
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while he is eating. In other words, he is applying
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this to what happened to job as he was taking care of things at
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home. And all of a sudden there was
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one messenger and then a other messenger and then another
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messenger because God was reading his wrath down on on
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job, because of his wickedness, He may flee from the iron weapon
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but the bronze bow will pierce him.
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It is drawn forth and comes out of his back.
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When even the glittering point from his Gall Terrors come upon
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Him. Complete darkness is held in
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reserve for his treasures and unfeigned fire will devour him.
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It will consume the Survivor in his tent.
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The heavens will reveal his iniquities and the Earth will
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rise up against him. There's no Escape job.
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Because both Heaven and Earth everything above and everything
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below knows of your iniquity knows.
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You're guilty the increase of his house will depart, his
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possessions will Flow Away in the day of his anger.
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This is the wicked man's portion from God, even the Heritage,
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decreed to him, by God, see joke, this is all from God.
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It's called given to you by God, this is a decreed appointment
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because of your wickedness. And Joe will respond as long as
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you can. Because he responds with super
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super wisdom. That's joke.
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But this drives us right back to where we were at the very
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beginning. The tongue is the most
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destructive force. In your family.
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In your church. Right.
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Life and death are in the power of the tongue Proverbs 18.
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First number 21, Whatever has potential for good, has the
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equal, but opposite potential for for evil.
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And so Paul. Picks up on this, not
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particularly job, but picks up on the whole theme of why people
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falsely accuse in life. So term would be a Colossians
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chapter 3. Paul picks up on this.
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He says in verse number one, therefore, if you have been
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raised up with Christ, keep seeking, the things above where
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Christ is seated, at the right hand of God, set your mind on
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things above, not on the things that are on the earth for, you
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have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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When Christ, who is our life is revealed?
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Then you also will be revealed with him in glory Christ.
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Is our life right? When Christ who is our life is
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revealed you shall be revealed with him in glory.
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So in other words he says look you can't function Horizontally.
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Unless you are focused. Vertically.
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You can't function in the Earthly Realm.
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Unless you're focused on the Heavenly Realm.
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Very important. So we said it, first number 5,
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therefore consider the members of your Earthly body is dead to
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immorality, impurity passion, evil, desire, and greed, which
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amounts to idolatry for his because of these things, that
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the wrath of God will come upon the sons of Disobedience.
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And in them, you also, once walked when you were living in
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them, but now also, Put them all.
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Aside, put them off. And Paul, if you've read the
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book of Galatians or you've read the book of Colossians, you know
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that Paul has this putting off and put it on conversation, it's
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were dealing with clothes. and so, when When a Jew would be
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baptized, he would, he would strip down to almost nothing.
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And he'd walk down to the mikveh and once he come up out of the
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mikveh, he would be clothed in a white robe, right?
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All symbolic because the Bible says, in the book of Isaiah that
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that we are clothed in Robes of righteousness, the garments of
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God, symbolic of how what God does with us.
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When he clothes us with his righteousness, when he saves us
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from our sin, but there's this putting off and putting on of
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clothes. That exemplify the condition of
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your heart. So listen, what Paul says.
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He says this. Now, you also put them all
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aside. Now, what he does he's going to
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build from the inside out. He built from the inside out the
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motive behind, why people lie? so, he says, But the mall side,
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number one. Anger.
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Anger. Or gay is the word.
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It's a word that deals with a smoldering resentment on the
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inside, okay? Because this is where it all
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begins. There is this resentment there
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is this bitterness there, is this smoldering, that's going
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on, in the inside. That's what happened to
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Potiphar's wife. She was so angry and so bitter
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that she was scorned by Joe. I by Joseph, that he would not
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want to lie with her, she became bitter and angry on the inside.
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As Saul became bitter and angry on the inside, as the nation of
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Israel became bitter and angry on the inside.
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See, that's what all begins on the inside. put aside anger, he
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says, Wrath wrath is thumos, right?
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That is the the blurting out of what's on the inside.
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It's the, it's the volcanic eruption of the bitterness, on
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the anger. That's on the inside, right?
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It's just erupts. And then he says, malice that
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sekiya with deals with all forms of wickedness and evil.
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Why? Because once you resent someone
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and you become Her toward them, right?
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What happens is that all of a sudden what spills out of the
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mouth is a volcanic eruption of of Wrath.
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In all kinds of evil takes place.
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He says. Slander and abusive speech from
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your mouth. Slander.
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And slander and gossip are two words used, similarly in
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scripture but there's a difference.
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Gossip gossip collects secrets. And loves to pass them on to
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others. Slander.
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Makes up its own secrets and broadcast them wherever.
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They do the most harm. That's District slander and
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gossip. And what happens is because of
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the anger in the heart and the Wrath that's building because of
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the bitterness. That's there Comes This
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wickedness. Which leads to slander false
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accusations, right. And that he says, do not lie to
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one another, Why? Because at the base of every lie
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is a hatred for the one you're lying to or about, that's why.
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He builds it from the inside out from the internal part of a man.
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That's why he begins the way he does.
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Because he wants you to be able to deal with this in a proper
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way. And and we can do this because
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because we're Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we can do
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this. You know, he goes on to say
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this, do not lie to one another since you laid aside the old
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self with its evil practices and have put on the new self, who is
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being renewed to a true knowledge, according to the
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image of the one who created him.
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Do you understand that? There is a not an old man that
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exist within your new man. You know they're right there are
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some people believe where you have an old man and a new man,
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the old man's always talking the new man, and the new man saying
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no to the old, man, the old man. Should I get the new man to do
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this? No, no.
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We are not. Schizophrenic.
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All right. The old man was what crucified?
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It's dead. That's why you become a new
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creation. The old man is corrupt.
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The new man is made righteous in the eyes of God.
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See, you are either in Adam or in Christ, who is the second
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Adam? But you're not in both at the
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same time. You're the in Adam.
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Or you're in Christ because if you're in Christ, who is a
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second Adam, you no longer in Adam.
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There's no old man there. So then why do I have to lay
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aside these things and then what's happening?
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That's because you had the stench of the dead man.
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In you, the stench is still there.
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The smell is still there. And that's why you got to put
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off the smell, put off the old garments, put off those things
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that that work governing in controlling your life.
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And put on put on that, which is Honorable and true and pure and
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holy. Lovely.
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That's what you got to do. She had these three friends.
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Who are sitting around. The a sheep.
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Each one, fueling the other. With false accusations.
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With slanderous comments. With lies about job.
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And they grow with intensity as the conversations go because
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they got to convince job that he's wrong.
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You see, they are so upset that he that he won't see it their
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way. That in the depths of their
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hearts, they are so angry. Why?
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Because there's a hatred, that's there.
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For job. And they express it by the
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conversation they use against him.
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Eva Donna. Maybe in the privacy of your
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home. Maybe kids with their parents.
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Parents with their kids. Why is it husbands or husbands
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wives? Every one of us in the room has
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said things that we probably should have never said, probably
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too many times during the years of our marriage, right?
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Where's that come from? Comes from the, the inside of a
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man for what proceeds from the inside of the man, right?
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Christ tells us it's all the Slanders and the gossip in the
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anger. That's on the inside of a man
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comes from the heart of men are sick.
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That's not right with God. Hardest not confessed up with
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God. So, so how would we handle this
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individually? What would, what would we do to
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make sure that we are not involved in hating someone to
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the degree that I'm waiting to spread false accusations about
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them, even to their face lie to their face about what's going on
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to try to convince them that I'm right and they're wrong.
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Or somebody else that I'm right and they're wrong.
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How do you not lie? To one another.
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Well, first of all. You got to repent of the sin of
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line. Right?
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You got to repent of the sin of false accusations.
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You got to repent of the sin of slander.
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Now his friends never do this. Until God compels him to do it.
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At the end, they have to do it at the end because God makes
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them right. You don't do it, voluntarily.
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Not until they're confronted by. The Lord God of Israel.
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But we have the opportunity. To turn from our sin.
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And repent of our sin. You know what psalm?
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Psalm 51 says, right? Over in Psalm 51.
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David speaks verse number 6. It says, behold you desire truth
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in the innermost being David knew he lied.
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David lied about Bathsheba lied about Uriah.
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Why? Because down deep inside there
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was hatred for your Riot. Why?
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Because Uriah had something that he wanted, why do people lie?
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You have what they want and you are stopping them forgetting it.
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So I will do whatever I can to get you out of the way and I've
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got a lie about it. I will.
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And down deep. He hated your eye out. because
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your I had Bathsheba and he didn't He wanted Bathsheba.
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She says, behold you desire truth in the innermost being and
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in the hidden part, you will make me no wisdom Purify Me with
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hyssop and I will be clean, wash me, and I shall be whiter than
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snow. Make me hear joy and gladness
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that the bones which you have broken and rejoice, hide your
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face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities create in me.
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A clean heart, o God, renew a steadfast Spirit within me.
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Do not cast me away from your presence.
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Then I take your Holy Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of your salvation you know, Joy.
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Can I have hatred in your heart and joy at the same time?
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And even had no joy. Or to obtain Joy, you, you must
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confess repent of your sin. so you repent from the sin of lying
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and then you have to request That God intervene and help you.
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Psalm 122 verse number to deliver my soul O.
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Lord from lying lips from a deceitful.
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Tom. The moment you think that you
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can do this yourself, you're back to square one again.
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You can't. You must request that the Lord
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step in and deliver you from a deceitful tongue from lying
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lips. But you going to do that.
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Once you've repented of You're lying, lips, your slanderous
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lips. The tongue that shows Discord
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among the Brethren the false accusations And then there were
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three. You need to recommit to loving
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your brother. You got to recommit to that.
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And would it be that that so far and eliphaz bildad would
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recommit themselves to doing what they came to do in the
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first place to, to mourn with him into the comfort him and to
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express her love for him? But as time went on, that was
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just such a far cry from what was in their hearts.
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They would say they love joke. They would say that.
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If they were here today, you could say, hey so far, do you
48:09
love Joe? I'm there all night.
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I'm in a sheep with him, right? Of course, I love them.
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But you word say something, completely different.
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The words are the clearest indicator of your spiritual
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condition. More than anything else.
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What you say? Tells us what's on the inside.
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Bible says, in first John chapter 3, He Who hates?
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His brother. Is a murderer.
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That's pretty strong. He who hates his brother is a
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murderer. In no murderer, has eternal life
48:56
in. Him.
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That would help us to rethink how we relate to one another,
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right? That we are to love one another
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to talk about acid a morning, let Brotherly Love continue.
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Don't be a stranger to you. Then you have to rely upon the
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spirit of God relations 5. Verse number 16, you can't can't
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walk in the flesh or you'll fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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You to walk in the spirit so you can rely upon the spirit of God.
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And then there were five. You got to remember the value
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that God places on truth. Remember the value that God
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places on Truth, God is a god of Truth.
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And God cares about truth. More than anything else.
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And sometimes we don't value the truth enough.
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That's why we lie. Because lying is his what we
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want immediately. so, will I Make a false accusation.
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slander, somebody For a moment, it makes us feel really good on
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the inside. But as Proverbs 26 says all
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you've done is roll the stone away, that's going to roll back
50:09
up on you or dig a pit that you're one day be lying in.
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Lashley. You got to rest in God's
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sovereignty. This is joke.
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You got to rest in God's sovereignty.
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Why Proverbs chapter 16? Proverbs chapter 16 verse number
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4. Says this.
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The Lord has made everything for its own purpose.
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Even the wicked for the day of evil.
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That speaks volumes. God made even potiphar wife for
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the day of evil. In Joseph's life.
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God made the nation of Israel. In Moses life.
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And God made Saul. The wicked person for the day of
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evil. For David's life.
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When people speak, all kinds of evil things against you.
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God is still in control. He's still running the show.
51:36
Don't get all bent out of shape about it.
51:39
Relax. God has made everything and
51:43
everyone for a purpose. And he's made even the Wicked,
51:47
Man. The Wicked Woman for the day of
51:49
evil, So you can rest in the fact that God is Sovereign and
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he's ruling over all these things.
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And this is job, that's my job is so the sovereignty of God in
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the suffering of man, not just the sovereignty of God in the
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physical suffering of Joseph. But in the verbal suffering that
52:05
he faces every day with this re friends, Got a sovereign in that
52:10
as well. And Joe continues to sit
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continues to listen. He does not interrupt.
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To the conversations over. And then he speaks.
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And when he speaks, he speaks truth.
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Because truth says, light on error.
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And their conversation was filled with error.
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Like Proverbs 26 says, they have deceived their own hearts into
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thinking that what they're saying is true.
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That's because there is so much hatred in their hearts.
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Toward job. And therefore, they slandered
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him to his face. I'm sure there's others walked
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by and heard the conversation. They could hear what was going
53:01
on. The job just sat and listened
53:06
until it was time to turn to respond.
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Let's get the 21. It was spawned.
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It will cover that next week. Let's pray.
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Father, we thank you, Lord, for today and the opportunity you
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give us to look into your word, Lord, such good reminders.
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For all of us. Lord, that our lives are
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governed by truth and speak the truth and live the truth. and
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pray father, that we would not be numbered among those who
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would speak ill of someone else or slander, someone else or a
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think of things that would falsely accuse someone Maybe we
53:44
truly love one another. To the point where we would
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speak the truth. Sometimes, the truth is
53:51
difficult to hear. But it needs to be said. but
53:56
needs to be said to the person, That needs to hear it.
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And our prayer father is that we wouldn't be like zophar or build
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a door eliphaz. This word is in the text.
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I mean, this is profitable for us.
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We need to learn from this. My prayer is that we would have
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learned, we would have grown. And we can begin to deal with
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things from a proper biblical perspective.
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None of us. None of us are perfect.
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None of us are, are completely in totally and wholly righteous,
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or we all sin, and you are a forgiving God.
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We're so grateful for your forgiveness, and it would maybe
54:43
be willing to extend forgiveness to those who are slandered us
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spoken against us even in our own family. those who have we've
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lived with for years, who have turned against us, husband, or
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wife or son, or daughter, or Aunt, or uncle It may be just be
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forgiving kind of people knowing knowing that everything has a
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purpose. And you've even created the
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wicked person for the day of evil.
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Lord, you're in charge, maybe trust you only in Jesus name?
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Amen.