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Reassuring Hope for the Assaulted and Abused, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Maybe it isn't a fist, but the words land just
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Speaker 1: as hard, and they leave marks that take far longer
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Speaker 1: to heal. You know the feeling, dismissed before you finish
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Speaker 1: a sentence, corrected in front of others, and told that
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Speaker 1: your pain doesn't matter. Well, Job knew that feeling too.
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Speaker 1: His world had already collapsed, and then came the friends,
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Speaker 1: the ones who were supposed to help. Today on Insight
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Speaker 1: for Living, Chuck Swindoll opens his Bible to the book
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Speaker 1: of Job and offers what he calls reassuring hope for
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Speaker 1: the assaulted and abused.
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Speaker 2: What did you talk about at breakfast early in the
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Speaker 2: morning of September the 11th, 2001? Don't remember, do you?
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Speaker 2: There was a small group of people who will never
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Speaker 2: forget what they talked about at breakfast. They had gathered
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Speaker 2: at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. with the Secretary of Defense,
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Speaker 2: Donald Rumsfeld. And they listened to him as he, at
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Speaker 2: that time it seemed, simply offered a theoretical concern. Some
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Speaker 2: might have even gone so far as to say a
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Speaker 2: studied prediction. He said sometime in the next two, four, six, eight, 10,
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Speaker 2: 12 months, there will be an event in the world
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Speaker 2: that will remind people how important it is to have
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Speaker 2: a strong, healthy defense department. Little did Rumsfeld and any
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Speaker 2: of those who sat at the breakfast at eight o'clock
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Speaker 2: that morning in the Pentagon have any idea that Flight
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Speaker 2: 77 was on its way from Dulles International to the
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Speaker 2: Pentagon Building? How could they have known? Jeffrey Krams, author
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Speaker 2: of The Rumsfeld Way, describes the man's immediate reaction when
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Speaker 2: within minutes after the words had fallen from his lips,
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Speaker 2: that plane crashed into the other side of the Pentagon,
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Speaker 2: taking 180 of Rumsfeld's colleagues and high-ranking officers in the military.
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Speaker 2: Crames writes, instinctively, Rumsfeld dashed out of the room, asked
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Speaker 2: if anyone knew what had happened, then ran toward the smoke.
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Speaker 2: Surrounded by chaos and rubble and rescue workers, he helped
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Speaker 2: get some of the wounded on to stretchers. Another publication
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Speaker 2: released shortly after that tragic event, The Economist reported, Rumsfeld
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Speaker 2: had done what soldiers have to do, stand fast when
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Speaker 2: the world explodes around you. He led by example. During
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Speaker 2: that time and in the hours that followed, what some
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Speaker 2: were calling an out of touch Secretary of Defense was
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Speaker 2: transformed into a courageous Secretary of War with a vital
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Speaker 2: mandate that to this day he has not forgotten. At
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Speaker 2: eight o'clock in the morning of September 11, the same
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Speaker 2: man who had spoken theoretically of the possibility of a
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Speaker 2: tragic event found himself engaged in the same in less
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Speaker 2: than an hour. Reminds me of Job. Remember chapter 1,
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Speaker 2: verse 6? Remember how it began? Now there was a day.
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Speaker 2: Seems so innocuous. Like the dawning of the 11th of September,
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Speaker 2: just another early autumn dawn. The smell of autumns in
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Speaker 2: the air. Children have been hustled off to school or
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Speaker 2: driven there, and moms and dads are busy about their work,
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Speaker 2: and the world of commerce has just begun. With Job,
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Speaker 2: I can't help but imagine his standing at the kitchen
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Speaker 2: window as his wife is finishing the breakfast, and he
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Speaker 2: says to her, you know, sweetheart, Just look at this.
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Speaker 2: Crops are full. Caravan is on its way right there.
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Speaker 2: Another coming in. Servants busy. Look over there at our
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Speaker 2: son's home. Look at that. And she walks over and
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Speaker 2: looks with him, puts her arms around his waist. He says,
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Speaker 2: you know, honey, it may not always be like this.
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Speaker 2: May not always be like this. You know, it could
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Speaker 2: all change. While Satan is meeting with the Lord God,
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Speaker 2: offering a sinister strategy, Job and his sweet wife finish
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Speaker 2: the conversation with a soft kiss and sit at the
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Speaker 2: table to talk of home and family and life and
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Speaker 2: the future until all hell breaks loose. Who? Who would
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Speaker 2: have ever imagined? And Job too ran toward the smoke.
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Speaker 2: And there were buildings that were scattered like pieces of
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Speaker 2: firewood thrown in the air. And one servant after another
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Speaker 2: bringing horrible news and then worse news and then the
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Speaker 2: ultimate all ten children are dead. And He loses it all, possessions, staff,
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Speaker 2: the ability to make a living, his children, and while
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Speaker 2: still soiled from the burial, chapter 2 begins the same
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Speaker 2: innocuous way again. There was a day. Another one of
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Speaker 2: those sunrises. Satan back for round two with the eternal God.
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Speaker 2: saying with something of a sneer, yeah, you protect him,
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Speaker 2: but you let this pain touch him, and he will
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Speaker 2: curse you to your face. I mean, who wouldn't serve
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Speaker 2: you in good health? He realized that Job did not
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Speaker 2: blame God, nor did he in any way sin, the
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Speaker 2: last verse of chapter 1 reads, and Job thinks he's
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Speaker 2: gone through it all. He's washing up and drops in
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Speaker 2: bed that dreadful night, only to awaken sore to the touch.
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Speaker 2: And before that sun goes down, he's covered with boils.
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Speaker 2: And by the end of that week, they're bursting and
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Speaker 2: they're itching and the fever is rising and he's swelling
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Speaker 2: and And he shaves his head and he stumbles away
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Speaker 2: from what was once his lovely plantation and finds his
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Speaker 2: way to where dogs root for food, the city dump,
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Speaker 2: and cries. But in all this, Job does not sin
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Speaker 2: with his lips. He must have thought when sitting there,
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Speaker 2: And his wife comes close to suggest that he simply
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Speaker 2: cursed God and died. He must have thought, I remember, honey,
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Speaker 2: when I was standing at the kitchen window. Remember that?
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Speaker 2: Remember that? Secretary of the War, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
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Speaker 2: must have replayed his speech a hundred times in his
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Speaker 2: mind over these last many months. Remember when I said, two, three, four,
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Speaker 2: twelve months. Job, many, many centuries earlier, led by example.
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Speaker 2: And he has become, for all of us, not a
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Speaker 2: perfect man, not a flawless man, not an ideal model,
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Speaker 2: that's Christ, but a remarkable, patient, enduring soul who to
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Speaker 2: this day has given us a cliché The patience of Job.
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Speaker 2: Who knows how many laid aside by sickness have reminded
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Speaker 2: themselves of the story of Job. I can tell you
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Speaker 2: my wife and I, having gone through a few things
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Speaker 2: recently that have just been completely out of the blue,
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Speaker 2: have reminded ourselves several times, just spontaneously, it just takes
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Speaker 2: the endurance of Job To stay at it. And if
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Speaker 2: the pain and the suffering and the loss and all
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Speaker 2: of this destruction were not bad enough, there comes from
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Speaker 2: a distance a handful of friends. Chapter 2, verse 18.
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Speaker 2: tells us at the end of the verse they came
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Speaker 2: by appointment to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
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Speaker 2: That was their goal. That was their objective. They They
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Speaker 2: communicated with one another, each living in a different place,
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Speaker 2: and they agreed on the same objective, and they would go,
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Speaker 2: and they would put their arms around their hurting friend,
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Speaker 2: and they would thank him for his life, and they
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Speaker 2: would bring him encouragement. But something got lost between the
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Speaker 2: planning of that objective and the implementation of it. Somehow
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Speaker 2: the agenda got blurred. They sat for a week and
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Speaker 2: stared at him, not able to speak because they saw
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Speaker 2: his pain was great. Verse 13 of chapter 2, and
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Speaker 2: as someone said, no problem there, the problem came when
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Speaker 2: they decided to speak. And at that point, I think
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Speaker 2: a worse pain than Job had ever known struck and
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Speaker 2: stayed with him for an undetermined period of time. You
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Speaker 2: and I have known people who have lost things. You
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Speaker 2: and I have known people who have gone belly up
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Speaker 2: in business. You and I know people who have buried
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Speaker 2: not one but several children. I know of one family
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Speaker 2: who buried four in one day. But I doubt that
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Speaker 2: we know someone who was landed on after all of
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Speaker 2: that by a handful of people who came for the
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Speaker 2: distinct purpose of criticizing and judging and ultimately condemning this victim.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what they did. Satan danced with glee. It
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Speaker 2: was wonderful. Without knowing it, they were his spokesmen. This
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Speaker 2: is going to work. God will see the man, curse
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Speaker 2: him to his face. No one can hold up under
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Speaker 2: that kind of barrage. And the full first cycle runs
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Speaker 2: its course from chapter 3 through chapter 14 as Eliphaz
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Speaker 2: and then Bildad and then Zophar take their turns as
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Speaker 2: they bent their spleen on him. And then round two
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Speaker 2: kicks in in chapter 15. And again, taking turns, probably
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Speaker 2: because Eliphaz is the oldest. He kicks in and dumps
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Speaker 2: his goods and then steps up Bildad for the second round.
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Speaker 2: It's like a tag team match in an unfair wrestling
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Speaker 2: event where they're going to slam him to the mat
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Speaker 2: over and over and over and over again. It's getting
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Speaker 2: a little boring, I know. I've looked into your faces
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Speaker 2: now for weeks and I understand. My family is starting
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Speaker 2: to ask, now how many more weeks are we going
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Speaker 2: to be on Job? My answer is now, too many.
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Speaker 2: We only have 42 chapters of this, folks, so take heart.
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Speaker 2: But I just can't skip along and play with these passages.
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Speaker 2: God's preserved them for reasons we need to learn. Chapter 18,
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Speaker 2: Bildad responds now for the second time. And if you
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Speaker 2: like comparing, look at chapter 8, verse 2, and compare
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Speaker 2: 18 to, and you'll see it's same song, literally second verse.
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Speaker 2: They began the same. How long? Bildad's getting a little
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Speaker 2: put out. How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding,
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Speaker 2: and then we can talk. Why are we regarded as beasts,
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Speaker 2: as stupid in your eyes? Oh, you who tear yourself
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Speaker 2: in your anger. For your sake is the earth to
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Speaker 2: be abandoned? I mean, does time stop because you have
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Speaker 2: a little pain? Or the rock to be moved from
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Speaker 2: its place? Is God going to hold his breath while
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Speaker 2: you get your life straightened out? That's all the implication
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Speaker 2: of these kind of sarcastic accusations, this exasperating, insulting kind
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Speaker 2: of beginnings. George Bernard Shaw once compared the average conversation
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Speaker 2: to a phonograph with half a dozen records. You soon
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Speaker 2: get tired of them all. It's like small talk at
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Speaker 2: a dull social gathering. It'll drive anybody to drink. I mean,
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Speaker 2: good night. No wonder they drink so much at those gatherings.
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Speaker 2: You got to stand the talk. How long, Job? How long?
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Speaker 2: That's the way Bildad sees this whole thing. He's not
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Speaker 2: interested in Job's pain. He's interested in Job shutting up
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Speaker 2: and admitting that he's sinful. Here's the way Bildad thinks.
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Speaker 2: God is just and fair. God punishes the wicked and
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Speaker 2: he blesses the righteous. If you repent, God will bless you.
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Speaker 2: If you don't repent, he'll keep judging you. Repent. Job
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Speaker 2: is not repenting. He hasn't done anything wrong. But you see,
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Speaker 2: Bildad's theology doesn't have room for mystery. Like many Christians today. Many.
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Speaker 2: If you suffer, you're out of God's will. He wants
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Speaker 2: everybody well. What horrible theology. If he wanted everybody well,
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Speaker 2: we'd all be well. He's God. He's in charge. He
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Speaker 2: doesn't go, oh, how'd you get sick? He's not like that.
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Speaker 2: He's running the show, if you will. He deliberately allows sickness.
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Speaker 2: He deliberately permits, sometimes for mysterious reasons never revealed, other
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Speaker 2: times clearly for reasons that he does reveal. But he
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Speaker 2: is in charge. And if you pray for the healing
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Speaker 2: of an individual and healing doesn't come, it's not the
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Speaker 2: individual's fault. Because God doesn't want everyone well. Paul himself
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Speaker 2: prayed three times that this thorn would be taken from him.
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Speaker 2: And the Lord said three times, no, no, no. And
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Speaker 2: Paul stopped praying. Most gladly, therefore, will I learn through
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Speaker 2: this that the power of God may rest on me.
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Speaker 2: It's a mystery, but Bildad hasn't any room for mystery.
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Speaker 2: It's clear in Bildad's mind that there is some secret
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Speaker 2: sin somewhere in Job's life that if we stay on
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Speaker 2: him long enough, he'll finally, finally admit it. I think
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Speaker 2: the great sin that Job wrestled with is how do
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Speaker 2: I kill these guys? But that's just, that's just no
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Speaker 2: extra charge for that. It's just a thought that I
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Speaker 2: would have had had I been sitting there covered in boils.
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Speaker 2: Bildad now visits Job with one reminder after another of death.
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Speaker 2: How's that for a counselor? How's that for a friend?
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Speaker 2: He pulls out all the stops and underscores the presence,
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Speaker 2: verse 14, chapter 18, of the king of terrors. The
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Speaker 2: king of terrors. Put on your margin, death. That's what
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Speaker 2: he's referring to. This is poetry. He uses poetic He
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Speaker 2: uses allegory. He uses analogy. He uses word pictures in
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Speaker 2: the poetry of his presentation. And he pictures Job dying
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Speaker 2: in four different word pictures. Verses 5 and 6, a
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Speaker 2: light going out. Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out.
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Speaker 2: The flame of his fire gives no light. The tent
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Speaker 2: is dark, verse 6. Second, a person who is trapped.
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Speaker 2: Heading for death. That's verses 7 through 10. The vigorous
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Speaker 2: stride is shortened and his own scheme brings him down.
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Speaker 2: There's an implication that you have a scheme, Job, and
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Speaker 2: you're not admitting it. You're not confessing it. Notice the
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Speaker 2: word pictures for this trapped person. He is thrown into
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Speaker 2: the net by his own feet. He steps on the webbing. Nine,
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Speaker 2: a snare seizes him. Verse 9 concludes, a trap snaps shut.
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Speaker 2: Verse 10, a noose for him is hidden in the ground.
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Speaker 2: A trap for him on the path. And then third,
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Speaker 2: when you get to verse 11, he becomes a fugitive
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Speaker 2: who is being pursued. And here is where he introduces
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Speaker 2: the king of terrors by name. All around, terrors frighten him.
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Speaker 2: So there are terrors to frighten him, verse 11. There's
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Speaker 2: exhaustion that weakens him, verse 12. His strength is famished.
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Speaker 2: There's calamity that confuses him. Calamity is ready at his side.
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Speaker 2: Sound like Job? Keep reading. His skin is devoured by disease. Job, listen.
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Speaker 2: These are all signs of you and your life. Verse 14,
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Speaker 2: you're torn from the security of your tent. You've lost
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Speaker 2: it all. You've had the removal of all of your
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Speaker 2: goods and all of your financial security. Ultimately, look at 15,
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Speaker 2: how it ends. Brimstone is scattered on his habitation. Hell itself, Job.
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Speaker 2: Fire and brimstone. that's coming, Job. Then he describes him
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Speaker 2: after a light that's extinguished and a person that's trapped
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Speaker 2: and a fugitive that's being pursued. Fourth, he shows him
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Speaker 2: to be a tree that's uprooted, verse 16. His roots
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Speaker 2: are dried below, his branches cut off, memory is of
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Speaker 2: him perishes from the earth like a tree that's cut down.
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Speaker 2: In the passing of years, you can't even remember where
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Speaker 2: it was. There's no name. He's driven from light to
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Speaker 2: darkness and chased from the inhabited world. No offspring, no
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Speaker 2: posterity among his people, nor any survivor where he sojourned. Surely,
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Speaker 2: look at this grim conclusion, verse 21. Such are the
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Speaker 2: dwellings of the wicked. Can't you hear Bill that? Such
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Speaker 2: are the dwellings of the wicked. This is the place
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Speaker 2: of him who does not know God.
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Speaker 1: Whoa.
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Speaker 2: I mean, here is Job itching madly. Fever is growing.
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Speaker 2: And he's head shaved. And he's dirty there sitting in
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Speaker 2: that city dump. And here is this man with the
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Speaker 2: audacity to dress him down. and to judge him. Why
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Speaker 2: would the Lord include this in his word? Well, if
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Speaker 2: I may, Bildad still lives. Sometime he comes in the
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Speaker 2: form of a mate who no matter what cannot bring
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Speaker 2: a word of encouragement or affirmation. Sometime it comes in
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Speaker 2: the form of a boss. Sometime it's a preacher in
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Speaker 2: a pulpit that's using it as a hammer to beat
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Speaker 2: the sheep. Sometimes it's a careless and angry head nurse who,
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Speaker 2: you know, will be glad when you're gone so you
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Speaker 2: can get the bed clean, get somebody else in here.
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Speaker 2: But Bildad still lives. You know, he made two major mistakes. First,
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Speaker 2: he's talking to the wrong person, and second, he's speaking
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Speaker 2: with the wrong motive. Let me tell you something. The
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Speaker 2: things Bildad says about death and about being haunted by
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Speaker 2: death and being driven to this frightening degree, it's true
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Speaker 2: if you don't know Christ. He's got the wrong man
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Speaker 2: in mind, but it's true. Bildad's right. There is a
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Speaker 2: way that seems right to the man, but the end
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Speaker 2: thereof are the ways of death. You and I know
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Speaker 2: people who do not know the Lord Jesus. And we
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Speaker 2: try every gracious way we know to present to them
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Speaker 2: hope and reassurance and forgiveness and a reason to go on.
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Speaker 2: And we weave into it words regarding their coming to Christ.
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Speaker 2: And they blink and look at us and they say, no,
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Speaker 2: we make it on our own. Well, that's what you
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Speaker 2: get when you try to make it on your own.
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Speaker 2: And the horror is, this is the place of him
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Speaker 2: who does not know God. But you see, Bildad, has
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Speaker 2: no right to say this to a fellow believer. Now
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Speaker 2: let's notice Job's reply. Job heard his opening words, verse
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Speaker 2: 2 of chapter 18. Look at Job's opening words, verse
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Speaker 2: 2 of chapter 19. How long will you torment me
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Speaker 2: and crush me with words? These ten times you have
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Speaker 2: insulted me. You are not ashamed to wrong me. I
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Speaker 2: have the verbs underlined in my Bible. Torment, crush, insult, wrong.
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Speaker 2: Let me step in here before we get neck deep
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Speaker 2: in this with Joe. Reproof is a good thing. We
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Speaker 2: all need accountability, no question. Some don't like and don't
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Speaker 2: want accountability. So any kind of reproof is resisting. Preachers
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Speaker 2: love to be kept free of reproof, so they love
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Speaker 2: the verse, touch not God's anointed.
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Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, I'm a man of the book. You
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Speaker 2: don't correct me. I'm above that. I correct you. That's garbage.
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Speaker 2: We all need reproof. Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
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Speaker 2: Faithful are the wounds. Trustworthy are the bruises caused by
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Speaker 2: the wounding of one who loves you. The Hebrew reads.
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Speaker 2: Trustworthy are the bruises caused by the wounding of one
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Speaker 2: who loves you. but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
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Speaker 1: There's a world of difference between words that wound to
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Speaker 1: destroy and words that wound to heal. Bildad showed up
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Speaker 1: with a hammer, but a true friend comes with a heart.
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Speaker 1: through this remarkable Old Testament book, It's a shocking portrayal
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Speaker 1: of human suffering. And today's study in Job chapters 18
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Speaker 1: and 19 reminds us that the people closest to us
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Speaker 1: and the sound recording was copyrighted in 2025 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc.
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Speaker 1: Duplication of copyrighted material for commercial use is strictly prohibited.