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Finally . . . Justice Rolls Down, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: There's something in all of us that longs to see
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  Speaker 1: wrong made right. We wait for the guilty to be
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  Speaker 1: held accountable, for the innocent to be vindicated, for the
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  Speaker 1: scales at long last to balance. But justice in this
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  Speaker 1: world so often seems slow in coming. Maybe you're waiting
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  Speaker 1: on God to settle the score. Have you wondered if
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  Speaker 1: he even knows? If he'll ever step in and set
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  Speaker 1: things straight? Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll arrives
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  Speaker 1: at the resolution of Job's long ordeal. And in Job's
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  Speaker 1: redemptive story, there's hope.
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  Speaker 2: For all of us.
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  Speaker 3: We turn to the last chapter in the book of Job.
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  Speaker 3: If you will please, I'll begin reading.
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  Speaker 2: At verse 5.
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  Speaker 3: Verse 5. I am undeterred in this process. Since I'm
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  Speaker 3: speaking on justice today, I think it's appropriate that I
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  Speaker 3: go on here. Job 42, verse 5. We will only
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  Speaker 3: have about five more Sundays in the book of Job.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'll come to the end of the book
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  Speaker 3: for you. Job 42.5, I have heard of you by
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  Speaker 3: the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
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  Speaker 3: Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes.
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  Speaker 3: It came about after the Lord had spoken these words
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  Speaker 3: to Job. The Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My
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  Speaker 3: wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends.
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  Speaker 3: because you have not spoken of me what is right,
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  Speaker 3: as my servant Job has. Now, therefore, take for yourselves
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  Speaker 3: seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job,
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  Speaker 3: and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my
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  Speaker 3: servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept him,
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  Speaker 3: so that I may not do with you according to
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  Speaker 3: your folly. because you have not spoken of me what
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  Speaker 3: is right, as my servant Job has. So Eliphaz the
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  Speaker 3: Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went
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  Speaker 3: and did as the Lord told them. And the Lord
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  Speaker 3: accepted Job. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when
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  Speaker 3: he prayed for his friends.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord increased all that Job had.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled today's message, Finally, Justice Rolls Down.
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  Speaker 3: There is something wonderfully satisfying about justice. We love it
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  Speaker 3: when right is rewarded and when wrong is punished. No
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  Speaker 3: one is better at either than the living God who
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  Speaker 3: is all fair and all knowing. When his justice rolls down,
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  Speaker 3: it is always right. One of the reasons Christians love
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  Speaker 3: to learn about future things is a part of the
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  Speaker 3: future things deals with rewards that are promised God's people.
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  Speaker 3: Those rewards are sometimes specified for us in prophetic books
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  Speaker 3: of the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: For example, there are crowns that are promised the faithful.
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  Speaker 3: Not just one or two, but there are five specific
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  Speaker 3: crowns And they make quite a study when you go
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  Speaker 3: into the New Testament and learn of the rewards that
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  Speaker 3: God has for his own people as we stand before
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  Speaker 3: the judgment seat of Christ, which is set forth in
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  Speaker 3: the third chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Of 1 Corinthians. You may remember singing.
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  Speaker 3: As a child that little gospel song, Will there be
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  Speaker 3: any stars, any stars in my crown?
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  Speaker 2: When at evening the sun goes down.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, The lyrics are fanciful because the Bible never promises
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  Speaker 3: stars in one's crown, but it does promise crowns. And
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  Speaker 3: there's something wonderfully satisfying about knowing that individuals who may
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  Speaker 3: have been ignored or, even worse, mistreated, sometimes martyred for
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  Speaker 3: their faith, that they will not be forgotten, that justice
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  Speaker 3: will roll down. They will be rewarded. God will not
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  Speaker 3: forget or overlook them. Justice has a flip side as well.
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  Speaker 3: Those who do wrong will suffer the consequences for the wrong.
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  Speaker 3: And there's something inside all of us that finds a
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  Speaker 3: satisfying relief when we hear that wrong was dealt with.
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  Speaker 3: We even have the phrase brought to justice. A close-to-home
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  Speaker 3: illustration comes to mind. Three weeks in October of 2002,
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  Speaker 3: a sniper was on the loose in the mid-Atlantic states.
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  Speaker 2: There's hardly a person hearing.
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  Speaker 3: Me right now who has not followed the story of
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  Speaker 3: the mass murders. Ten of them, as people were cowardly
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  Speaker 3: and brutally shot at random. coming out of malls or
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  Speaker 3: getting into their cars or pumping gas or.
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  Speaker 2: Getting off of a bus. From somewhere, someone.
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  Speaker 3: Had the audacity to kill in cold blood. Cynthia and
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  Speaker 3: I have a friend who lives about a mile from
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  Speaker 3: where the first shot rang out.
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  Speaker 2: He's a federal judge.
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  Speaker 3: And he said to me just this past week when
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  Speaker 3: we talked about it, That there was a sense of
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  Speaker 3: terror that stretched across those communities as they couldn't find
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  Speaker 3: the killer or killers.
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  Speaker 2: And then it seems they've been found.
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  Speaker 3: And if they are in fact the ones, they shot
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  Speaker 3: out of the trunk of their cars, causing their deed
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  Speaker 3: to be all the more cowardly and unfair. And something
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  Speaker 3: inside us is incensed by that. We live for the
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  Speaker 3: day that they will be brought to justice. And ideally
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  Speaker 3: that they will be killed for their deeds. So we wait.
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  Speaker 3: We're pleased that they've been captured. And we're grateful that
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  Speaker 3: justice has rolled down yet again. Or it soon will.
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  Speaker 3: I came across a very interesting statement in the little
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  Speaker 3: book of Amos just this week. Amos, just before the
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  Speaker 3: book of Obadiah or just after Joel. I know it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to find. Let me just cut to the chase.
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  Speaker 3: It's page 1409 in my Bible. Maybe not in yours.
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  Speaker 3: It's over in the minor prophets and You've probably not
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  Speaker 3: turned to Amos maybe ever in your life, but right
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of the book, this prophet who was
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  Speaker 3: making the indifferent rather uncomfortable with his prophecy represents the
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  Speaker 3: words of the Lord when he says, 521, I hate,
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  Speaker 3: I reject your festivals. Nor do I delight in your
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  Speaker 3: solemn assemblies. Even though you offer up to me burnt
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  Speaker 3: offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them.
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  Speaker 2: He's quoting the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: I will not even look at the peace offerings of
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  Speaker 3: your fatlings.
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  Speaker 2: Take away from me the noise of your songs.
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  Speaker 3: I will not even listen to the sound of the harps.
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  Speaker 3: Let justice roll down. Don't you like the way that reads?
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  Speaker 3: Let it roll down like water. And then in good
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  Speaker 3: Hebrew poetic fashion, the statement follows that intensifies it. Let
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  Speaker 3: righteousness like an ever-flowing stream roll down. It's been a
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  Speaker 3: long time coming, says the Lord, but remember, I am just,
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  Speaker 3: as one man wrote, the mills of God grind slowly, yet.
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  Speaker 2: They grind exceedingly small.
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  Speaker 3: Another in our day put it this way, all God's
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  Speaker 3: accounts are not settled at the end of every month.
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  Speaker 3: Eugene Peterson in the message renders this passage in words
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  Speaker 3: that probably will seem a little more current to you
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  Speaker 3: and me. I can't stand your religious meetings. I'm fed
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  Speaker 3: up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to
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  Speaker 3: do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sick of your fundraising schemes, your public relations and
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  Speaker 3: image-making schemes. I've had all I can take of your
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  Speaker 3: noisy ego music. When was the last time you sang
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  Speaker 3: to me?
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I want justice, oceans of it. I want fairness, rivers
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  Speaker 3: of it. That's what I want. That's all I want.
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  Speaker 3: You're hearing justice in these words of passion. God ultimately
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  Speaker 3: brings people into account. You know, the problem is that
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  Speaker 3: he's often so slow in doing it. I heard of
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  Speaker 3: one of the Puritan prayers, very brief for a change
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  Speaker 3: for a Puritan.
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  Speaker 2: And he simply said.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, hurry up. Don't you say that sometimes? This
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  Speaker 3: wrong has been going on long enough. Hurry up, God.
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  Speaker 3: Or when will he ever step in and deal with whatever?
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  Speaker 3: Or reward these people? Why do we say that? Because
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  Speaker 3: we want justice.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: It's how he made us. We are like God. When
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  Speaker 3: in our righteous walk, we long for justice. He's pleased
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  Speaker 3: with justice and equity and fairness. I am pleased to
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  Speaker 3: tell you that in the story of Job, justice finally
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  Speaker 3: rolls down. This man who did not deserve the boils
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  Speaker 3: that covered his skin or the loss of his business
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  Speaker 3: and home and family and happiness ultimately gets them back
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  Speaker 3: and gets them back in multiplied fashion as we're going
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  Speaker 3: to learn. And those who made his life even more
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  Speaker 3: miserable hear from the Lord about that too. He does
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  Speaker 3: not overlook either. Our faithful God rewards the righteous and
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  Speaker 3: he also disciplines the unrighteous. Back in Job 42, we
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  Speaker 3: were forced to move along rather quickly in our last
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  Speaker 3: message and we finished before I was through.
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  Speaker 2: That happens somewhat regularly.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to go back briefly and pull from
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  Speaker 3: it some lessons that I don't want you to miss
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  Speaker 3: because I think they will help us in the living
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  Speaker 3: of our lives as Job finally sees it through a
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  Speaker 3: couple of interesting illustrations of You remember the hippopotamus and
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  Speaker 3: the crocodile? Remember those strange examples the Lord uses in
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  Speaker 3: chapters 40 and 41? Finally, it dawns on Job what
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  Speaker 3: the Lord is getting at. That his plan is profound.
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  Speaker 3: That his reasoning is right. That his ways are higher
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  Speaker 3: than we can ever understand. And Job waves the flag
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  Speaker 3: of surrender and says, I back away. I retract and
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  Speaker 3: I repent. I said things I shouldn't have been saying.
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  Speaker 3: I spoke about things I knew nothing about. And Lord,
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  Speaker 3: please know my heart is yours. And I place myself
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  Speaker 3: at your disposal. When you get to chapter 42, those
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  Speaker 3: are Job's words in verses two through six. And I
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  Speaker 3: pulled from these verses four lessons that I want you
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  Speaker 3: to remember. And they go with us toward the end
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  Speaker 3: of the story.
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  Speaker 2: Job says, verse.
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  Speaker 3: 2, I know, he's speaking to the Lord, I know
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  Speaker 3: that you can do all things and that no purpose
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  Speaker 3: of yours can be thwarted. You can do all things
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  Speaker 3: and no one can hold you back. Here's the lesson
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  Speaker 3: I learned from that. God's purpose is unfolding and I
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  Speaker 3: cannot hinder it. Some of you need to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: I do not know the details of your circumstances, but
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  Speaker 3: surely in a group this large, there must be some
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  Speaker 3: pretty tough situations. There are some pretty severe needs. And
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  Speaker 3: you may begin to wonder if this is getting out
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  Speaker 3: of control and God really is absent. Remember the principle.
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  Speaker 3: God's purpose is unfolding, mysterious as it may seem, and
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  Speaker 3: I cannot hinder it. You will discover before I'm through
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  Speaker 3: with these four that the whole focus.
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  Speaker 2: Is on the Lord. It's not on life. It is
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  Speaker 2: on the Lord. It's not on others. It is on
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. It is not on the difficulties. It is
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  Speaker 2: on the Lord. Now the second comment Job makes is
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  Speaker 2: in verse 3.
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  Speaker 3: Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Sort of
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  Speaker 3: a self-confession there. Therefore I have declared that which I
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  Speaker 3: did not understand. I would render the next things too
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  Speaker 3: deep for me, which I did not know. Here's the
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  Speaker 3: second thought. God's plan is incredible, and I will not
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  Speaker 3: comprehend it. I hope after the study of Job that
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  Speaker 3: you make a point in your life of reminding yourself regularly,
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  Speaker 3: things are happening that I cannot hinder. Things are happening
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  Speaker 3: I will never comprehend. If you will tell yourself that enough,
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  Speaker 3: you will find a peace you've never known before. The
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  Speaker 3: lack of peace comes when we try to make sense
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  Speaker 3: out of everything that is occurring and try to make
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  Speaker 3: it fit our human logic. And we forget his ways
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  Speaker 3: are higher than our ways. His plan is deeper. His
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  Speaker 3: purposes are far more profound. We cannot hinder them and
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  Speaker 3: we will not comprehend them.
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  Speaker 2: Let it rest. Let it be. It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to know to have peace. You have
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  Speaker 3: to trust to have peace. Now the third principle is
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  Speaker 3: in verses 4 and 5. Hear now and I will speak.
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  Speaker 3: I will ask you and you instruct me. He's talking
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  Speaker 3: to the Lord. I will ask you, Lord, and you, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: instruct me. I've heard of you by the hearing of
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  Speaker 3: the ear.
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  Speaker 2: Now my eye sees you. Third principle.
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  Speaker 3: God's instruction is reliable. I dare not ignore it. God's
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  Speaker 3: instruction is reliable. I dare not ignore it. I think
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  Speaker 3: I should warn every one of you that because you
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  Speaker 3: place yourself under the teaching of the word of God,
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  Speaker 3: as I do, we are accountable When you hear principles
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  Speaker 3: such as this, and then either ignore them or disobey them,
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  Speaker 3: there is a consequence that will follow. There's sadness in
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  Speaker 3: place of relief. There's a discouragement in place of a
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  Speaker 3: sense of fulfillment. His instruction is reliable, and therefore we
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  Speaker 3: dare not ignore it. This isn't just a religious exercise.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't just another way to spend a Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't just an empty pastime that we.
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  Speaker 2: Do out of habit.
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  Speaker 3: It is a time of allowing his truth to filter
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  Speaker 3: into our gray matter and impact us so that our
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  Speaker 3: attitudes and our actions and our words change.
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  Speaker 2: To fit his, to fit him. You see him? You
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  Speaker 2: see Job? That's what he does in verse 6.
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  Speaker 3: Therefore, since your purpose is unfolding, since your plan is incredible,
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  Speaker 3: since your instruction is reliable, I retract. I pull back
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  Speaker 3: from a number of the things that I said, things
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  Speaker 3: I used to believe. I repent in dust and ashes.
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  Speaker 3: This is saying to us, God's way is best. I
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  Speaker 3: must not resist it. God's way is best. I must
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  Speaker 3: not resist it.
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  Speaker 2: That did it.
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  Speaker 3: When the Lord heard Job's heart, as these words reveal
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  Speaker 3: his heart, when the Lord saw the humility and the
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  Speaker 3: openness and the teachability of Job, mercy kicked in and grace,
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  Speaker 3: grace flowed down. In fact, the Lord decides to use
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  Speaker 3: Job in the process of restoring these friends who have
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  Speaker 3: gotten so far off track.
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  Speaker 2: That's another point.
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  Speaker 3: You will be amazed at how the Lord will use
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  Speaker 3: you and others' lives when you adjust your ways to
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  Speaker 3: His ways. You will be for them a refuge, a
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  Speaker 3: point of hope, a reason to go on, a source
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  Speaker 3: of strength, a calming presence. You will be that and
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  Speaker 3: so much more to those who lack the things that
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  Speaker 3: you now possess by his grace. So the Lord hears
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  Speaker 3: his servant say that, and he then turns his attention
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  Speaker 3: to the three friends. Before we go to this section,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't mention Elihu by name. probably because Elihu, the
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  Speaker 3: last of the friends, was more right than the others,
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  Speaker 3: probably was more on target, though his heart needed a
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  Speaker 3: little adjustment at times, and his pride needed to come
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  Speaker 3: down a few notches. He was not guilty as Eliphaz
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  Speaker 3: and Bildad and Zophar were, and that's why the Lord
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  Speaker 3: addresses them directly.
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  Speaker 2: Before I go there, let me give you a statement.
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  Speaker 2: Life is all about our God. Life is all about
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  Speaker 2: our God. Will you say that with me? Life is
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  Speaker 2: all about our God.
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  Speaker 3: If you, sounds simple, maybe sounds silly, but if you
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  Speaker 3: will repeat that every morning when you get up, it'll.
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  Speaker 2: Make a difference in your day.
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  Speaker 3: Because from the earliest years, we think life is about us.
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  Speaker 2: My comfort, my space.
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  Speaker 3: My rights, my will, my career, my salary, my plans,
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  Speaker 3: my health.
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  Speaker 2: Life is not about that. It is about our God.
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  Speaker 3: And as he works his way and will and purposes
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  Speaker 3: through us, it is.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing when we get on.
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  Speaker 3: Track how absolutely delightful more of life can be. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying you will be free of any trials.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 2: Difficulties will leave you by.
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  Speaker 3: The tons and you'll never know what it is to
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  Speaker 3: be depressed or discouraged. That's not what I'm saying. You're
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  Speaker 3: only human. I'm just saying the way you've been living
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  Speaker 3: will not be the way you will live when you
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  Speaker 3: focus on the fact that life is all about your God.
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  Speaker 3: Job sees it. These other men don't. They're standing in
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  Speaker 3: the background frowning with their arms folded, wondering why the
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  Speaker 3: lightning isn't striking Job, and the Lord isn't vindicating them
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  Speaker 3: for what they said.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, are they in for a surprise.
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  Speaker 3: It came about after the Lord had spoken these words
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  Speaker 3: to Job, verse 7, that the Lord said to Eliphaz
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  Speaker 3: the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and against
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  Speaker 3: your two friends.
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  Speaker 2: Stop. I know you want to go on, but stop.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love it that the Lord says, you made me angry.
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  Speaker 3: Your words were wrong words. Your actions were wrong actions.
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  Speaker 3: And I have a wrath that is kindled over what
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  Speaker 3: you have been doing. You know why I love it?
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  Speaker 3: Because I was reared in a world that taught Christians
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  Speaker 3: should never be angry. If you are angry, you are sinful.
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  Speaker 3: And you need to confess it, that you got mad.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit more complicated than that, honestly. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if the Lord can show a wrath that is kindled,
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  Speaker 3: surely there's a place for anger. The Lord Jesus driving
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  Speaker 3: those people who were desecrating the temple out of the
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  Speaker 3: temple as he plaited together those leather shoes. thongs and
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  Speaker 3: made them into a whip and drove them out. You
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  Speaker 3: can't tell me, he said, now, gentlemen, I'm a little
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  Speaker 3: uneasy about what I'm seeing here. When you have time,
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  Speaker 3: would you clean up the mess and be on your way?
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  Speaker 3: He drove them out of the temple. I would love
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  Speaker 3: to see a picture of that. Got his sleeves rolled
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  Speaker 3: up and he is swinging that whip. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that is fantastic. Those Pharisees saw him coming toward him.
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  Speaker 3: It was like What is this? But he's never done
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  Speaker 3: a sin in his entire existence, so it couldn't have
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  Speaker 3: been sinful. It was a righteous indignation. Something's wrong if
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  Speaker 3: you don't get mad over that. The Lord God says,
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  Speaker 3: it's not a temper tantrum here.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a sudden overreaction as he pitches a fit.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, this has been a long time coming. He's been
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  Speaker 3: standing back, waiting and waiting constantly. And finally, he reaches
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  Speaker 3: the limit of his tether. I'm not talking about an
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  Speaker 3: out-of-control rage. I'm talking about a justifiable anger that comes
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  Speaker 3: from the heart of one who is holy in God's case.
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  Speaker 1: Righteous anger from the heart of a holy God. It's
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  Speaker 1: a side of the Lord we don't often pause to consider.
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  Speaker 1: He's patient, slow to anger, waiting and waiting. But He's
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  Speaker 1: also just, and He won't let wrong stand forever. There's
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  Speaker 1: more to this story that Chuck Swindoll wants to show us,
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  Speaker 1: so keep listening to Insight for Living. Chuck titled this message, Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Justice Rolls Down. The Old Testament book of Job provides
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  Speaker 1: a shocking picture of human suffering. Many of the images
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  Speaker 1: are pitiful and frankly seem so unfair. But that's the
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  Speaker 1: way life is, right? Sometimes it feels like nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than an endless sequence of unwanted surprises. And yet, even still,
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  Speaker 1: Job deliberately chose triumph over tragedy. We encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: get better acquainted with Job using the practical Bible study
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  Speaker 1: resources that Insight for Living offers. For instance, we invite
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  Speaker 1: you to request the Searching the Scriptures Bible Study Workbook
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  Speaker 1: for this series. It's called Job, a Man of Heroic Endurance.
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  Speaker 1: This spiral-bound workbook is part of a bundle of resources.
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  Speaker 1: The collection includes 22 sermons on CD. Plus, the bundle
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  Speaker 1: includes Chuck Swindoll's full-length biography of Job. In his book,
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  Speaker 1: more than 300 pages in length, you'll read Chuck's meticulous
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  Speaker 1: expose of Job's story. Along the way, Chuck infuses practical
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  Speaker 1: application that equips you to deal with adversity of any kind.
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  Speaker 1: Three powerful resources, the spiral-bound Bible study workbook, the full
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  Speaker 1: collection of sermons from Chuck, and his comprehensive biography of Job,
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  Speaker 1: a man of heroic endurance. You can find all the
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  Speaker 1: details at insight.org slash offer or call us at 800-772-8888. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: here's something that will interest you. Chuck Swindoll recently sat
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  Speaker 1: down with actor and producer Kirk Cameron. During their conversation,
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  Speaker 1: Kirk talked about his transformation in Christ, which happened through
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  Speaker 1: Chuck's preaching. To hear and see the entire interview between
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  Speaker 1: Chuck and Kirk, stop by insight.org slash conversation. Are you
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  Speaker 1: waiting on God to make things right?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Bill Meyer.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindoll tells a redemptive story of divine justice tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: on Insight for Living. The preceding message, Finally, Justice Rolls Down,
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