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What Job Teaches Us about Ourselves, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: When things are rocking along comfortably and enjoyably and with
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  Speaker 1: good health and with.
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  Speaker 2: A full family, my, my, how high is our view
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  Speaker 2: of God? But when the bottom drops out, it's easy to.
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  Speaker 1: Lower one's view of God when hardship assaults us.
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  Speaker 3: You get up as the sun rises, the coffee's on,
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  Speaker 3: the morning looks like every other morning, and then your
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  Speaker 3: phone rings and everything changes. That's how it happened for
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  Speaker 3: a man named Job. No morning, no skywriting, just a
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  Speaker 3: normal day until it wasn't. Today on Insight for Living,
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Swindoll opens the book of Job to show us
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  Speaker 3: what suffering teaches us about ourselves. It begins with two
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  Speaker 3: lessons every one of us will need sooner than we think.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck titled his message, What Job Teaches Us About Ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're back in Job. Well, let's face it.
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  Speaker 1: Now your Bible automatically just opens to Job. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to ask you to do something a little different.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that I've ever asked you to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have you find a blank page, front
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  Speaker 1: or back of your Bible, and I want you to
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  Speaker 1: write two things. Form two columns, and today we'll fill
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  Speaker 1: in one, and next Sunday we'll fill in the other.
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  Speaker 1: At the top of this page, or this column, write,
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  Speaker 1: what Job teaches us about ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Then just number one through seven.
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  Speaker 1: And then we'll save the next one for next time.
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  Speaker 1: What Job teaches us about our God. And won't that
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  Speaker 1: be helpful to see what he says to us about ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: And then from the principles of Job, what we can
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  Speaker 1: learn from him about our God.
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  Speaker 2: They go together. Sort of a one-two punch. Trust me.
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  Speaker 2: You'll need these, if not now, soon. if not soon, later.
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  Speaker 1: I want to read sort of randomly a section of
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  Speaker 1: chapters 1 and 2. All of it will bring back
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  Speaker 1: the memory of when we walked through this.
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  Speaker 2: Story.
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  Speaker 1: There was a man in the land of Uz whose
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  Speaker 1: name was Job. And that man was blameless, upright, fearing God,
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  Speaker 1: and turning away from evil. The next few verses describe
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  Speaker 1: what he owned and his children. There were ten of them.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 6. Now there was a day when the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God came to present themselves before the Lord. And, interesting,
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew text says, and the Satan, and the Satan
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  Speaker 1: also came among them. The Lord said to the Satan,
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  Speaker 1: From where did you come? Then the Satan answered the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and said, From roaming about on the earth and
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  Speaker 1: walking around on it. The Lord said to Satan, Have
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  Speaker 1: you considered my servant Job? For there's no one like
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  Speaker 1: him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing
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  Speaker 1: God and turning away from evil. Satan answered the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Does Job.
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  Speaker 1: Fear God for nothing. Have you not made a hedge
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  Speaker 1: about him and his house and all that he has
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  Speaker 1: on every side? You have blessed the work of his
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  Speaker 1: hands and his possessions have increased in the land. But
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  Speaker 1: put forth your hand now and touch all that he
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  Speaker 1: has on He will surely curse you to your face.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord said to the Satan, behold, all that he
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  Speaker 1: has is in your power. Only do not put forth
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  Speaker 1: your hand on him. So Satan departed from the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. You remember what happened? Four different messengers.
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  Speaker 1: It happened on the day when his sons and daughters
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  Speaker 1: were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house that.
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  Speaker 2: A messenger came.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 16, while he was still speaking, another also came. 17,
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  Speaker 1: while he was still speaking, another also came. 18, while
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  Speaker 1: he was still speaking, another also came. And said, your
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  Speaker 1: sons and your daughters were eating and drinking in their
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  Speaker 1: oldest brother's house. And a great wind came from across
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house.
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  Speaker 1: And it fell on the young people and they died.
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  Speaker 1: Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head
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  Speaker 1: and fell.
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  Speaker 2: To the ground and worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 1, again, there was a day when the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God came to present themselves before the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: the Satan also came among them to present himself before
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  Speaker 1: the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Same question, same answer.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord, verse 3, said to Satan, have you considered
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  Speaker 1: my servant Job? There's no one like him on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away
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  Speaker 1: from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity. Verse four,
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  Speaker 1: Satan answered the Lord and said, skin for skin. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all that a man has, he will give for his life. However,
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  Speaker 1: put forth your hand now and touch his bone and
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  Speaker 1: his flesh.
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  Speaker 2: He will curse you to your face. So the Lord
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  Speaker 2: said to Satan, behold, he's in your power. Only spare
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  Speaker 2: his life.
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  Speaker 1: Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: smoked Job with sore boils from the sole of his.
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  Speaker 2: Foot to the crown of his head.
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  Speaker 1: Took a butcher to scrape himself while he was sitting
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  Speaker 1: among the ashes.
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  Speaker 2: His wife said, do you still hold fast your integrity?
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  Speaker 2: Curse God.
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  Speaker 1: He said to her, you speak as one of the
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  Speaker 1: foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God
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  Speaker 1: and not accept adversity? In all this, Job did not
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  Speaker 1: sin with his lips.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 3: Job's story, be sure to purchase a copy of our
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  Speaker 3: Searching the Scriptures Bible Study Workbook by going to insight.org
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  Speaker 3: slash offer. Chuck titled today's message, What Job Teaches Us
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  Speaker 3: About Ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Kids don't mean to be funny. It's just when they
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  Speaker 1: say things, they come across as funny. Even when they're
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  Speaker 1: answering questions that are fairly serious, it's remarkable how their answers,
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  Speaker 1: while true often, are just hilarious. Someone sent me this
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  Speaker 1: week some questions that Children were asked, and ages 7
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  Speaker 1: through 10, children answered. For example, how do you decide
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  Speaker 1: who to marry, was asked. Kirsten, who is age 10,
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  Speaker 1: she answers, no person really decides before they grow up
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  Speaker 1: who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before.
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  Speaker 1: And you get to find out later who you're stuck with. Derek,
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  Speaker 1: age 8, answered, How can a stranger tell if two
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  Speaker 1: people are married?
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  Speaker 2: Derek answers, You might have to guess based on whether
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  Speaker 2: they seem to be yelling at the same kids.
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  Speaker 1: Which ties in with the question asked Laurie, age 8,
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  Speaker 1: What do you think your mom and dad have in common?
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  Speaker 1: Laurie says, Both don't want any more kids.
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  Speaker 2: When is it okay to kiss.
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  Speaker 1: Someone, Pam, age seven, when they're rich? Kurt, also age seven,
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  Speaker 1: answered that when the law says you have to be 18.
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  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't want to mess with that. Okay, Kurt.
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  Speaker 2: Is it better to be single or married?
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  Speaker 1: Anita, age nine, it's better for girls to be single,
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  Speaker 1: but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up
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  Speaker 1: after them. And all the wives said, yeah, I knew
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  Speaker 1: you'd do that. One of my favorites, how would you
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  Speaker 1: make a marriage work? Ricky, age 10, says, tell your
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  Speaker 1: wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like
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  Speaker 1: a truck. Another little child in our congregation is age six,
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  Speaker 1: and her daddy wrote me this past week to tell
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  Speaker 1: me something she said when she has been sitting with
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  Speaker 1: them through all of the messages on Job. She leaned
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  Speaker 1: over and said to her daddy, Daddy, when Pastor Chuck
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  Speaker 1: started the book of Job, was I four or five?
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  Speaker 2: You were still six, sweetheart, wherever you are.
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  Speaker 1: Now, at the risk of having some tomatoes thrown in
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  Speaker 1: my direction, I'm going to tell you we have only
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  Speaker 1: two more messages on Job.
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  Speaker 2: Don't clap. I got that.
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  Speaker 1: You know something's wrong when you read your scriptures and
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  Speaker 1: you say, now for the last chapter of Job, people
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  Speaker 1: start to applaud when you get there. I want us
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  Speaker 1: to sort of look at the whole book since we
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  Speaker 1: have been hammering our way through these trees and on
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  Speaker 1: occasion each limb and finding our way through this forest
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  Speaker 1: of information. I want us to come today to some
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  Speaker 1: sort of practical terms with what this book teaches us
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  Speaker 1: in a very, very practical way about the way we
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  Speaker 1: live our lives, what we learn about ourselves from Job,
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  Speaker 1: and then find out what it is we learn from
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  Speaker 1: Job about our God.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me on this one.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to need one or more of the principles
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  Speaker 1: sooner than you may realize. And while we have fun
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  Speaker 1: with it and have enjoyed ourselves on a number of occasions,
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  Speaker 1: today we're rolling up our sleeves and looking at life
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  Speaker 1: through Job's viewpoint and learning from his example. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: take today's talk mainly from the early part of Job,
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  Speaker 1: and then next time we will look at the latter
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  Speaker 1: chapter of the book and see what it says about God.
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  Speaker 2: But today about ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: There was a man in the land of Uz whose
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  Speaker 1: name was Job. That man was blameless, upright, fearing God,
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  Speaker 1: turning away from evil. We read he had ten children,
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  Speaker 1: seven sons and three daughters. His possessions were great. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: of sheep and camels, half a thousand of oxen and donkeys.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the wrap-up statement in verse 3 is that
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  Speaker 1: he was the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: In the East.
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  Speaker 1: There was no one better known, perhaps wealthier than Job.
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  Speaker 1: Job didn't know it, but there was a dialogue that
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  Speaker 1: took place in the invisible.
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  Speaker 2: World above him.
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  Speaker 1: As the Lord and the Satan had this encounter, For
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  Speaker 1: some reason, Satan allowed into the Lord's presence and the
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  Speaker 1: dialogue turns on the person of Job. The Lord calls
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  Speaker 1: Satan's attention to Job and says, have you noticed him?
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  Speaker 2: And Satan in.
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  Speaker 1: Standard operating procedure of sarcasm said, of course, it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: serve you the way you've treated him. He's got penthouse treatment.
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  Speaker 1: But you touch what he owns, he'll curse you to
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  Speaker 1: your face.
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  Speaker 2: It's the divine wager. So the Lord, in today's terms,
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  Speaker 2: bet him that that would not happen.
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  Speaker 1: No, he wouldn't do that. And I'll allow you the
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  Speaker 1: freedom to move into his world, but don't touch him.
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  Speaker 1: Don't touch his person. And you recall he did that.
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  Speaker 1: And in a brief matter of really, really moments.
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  Speaker 2: Satan instigates a removal.
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  Speaker 1: Of all of the possessions, all of his ability to
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  Speaker 1: earn a living. Much of his property is destroyed and
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  Speaker 1: he's leveled in bankruptcy. Which brings us to the first
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  Speaker 1: of seven lessons we learn from Job about ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: We never know.
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  Speaker 1: Ahead of time the plans God has for us. Job
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  Speaker 1: had no way of knowing this. That morning dawned like
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  Speaker 1: every other morning. The night had passed like most every
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  Speaker 1: other night. There was no early morning skywriting. There was
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  Speaker 1: no angelic visit. There was no tap at the window
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  Speaker 1: warning him that something would change or that all hell
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  Speaker 1: would break loose or the bottom would drop out of
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  Speaker 1: his life. He got up that morning like every other
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  Speaker 1: morning and he began the day only to be interrupted
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  Speaker 1: by this messenger and that messenger and the next one
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  Speaker 1: and the next one. And before you could sneeze, it seems,
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  Speaker 1: the buildings are gone and there are carcasses on the
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  Speaker 1: land and the servants have been taken or killed or kidnapped.
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  Speaker 1: And Job knows nothing ahead of time. You can't anticipate
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  Speaker 1: it correctly. You're unable to predict it accurately. It's impossible
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  Speaker 1: to explain it fully.
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  Speaker 2: No one can explain it. Like a bolt out of
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  Speaker 2: the blue, his world explodes. And God didn't warn him
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  Speaker 2: ahead of time. Could happen to you. It could hit
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  Speaker 2: me on the way home. The next airplane trip for
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  Speaker 2: you or me could be our last. The fact is,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know ahead of time. what his plan is.
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  Speaker 2: He has a plan.
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  Speaker 1: He just isn't obligated to warn us about it or
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  Speaker 1: to remind us that it could happen. Hold your place
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  Speaker 1: here and with another finger find Jeremiah chapter 29. It's
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  Speaker 1: really worth a look.
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  Speaker 2: Turn please.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11. The subject is the Jews
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  Speaker 1: going into captivity.
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  Speaker 2: Yet future. The subject is the life beyond the captivity.
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  Speaker 2: Yet future.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord speaking to his prophet who then speaks
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  Speaker 1: to the people.
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  Speaker 2: Tells them I know the plans that I have for you.
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  Speaker 2: Declares the Lord. Observe it does not read.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you all about them ahead of time
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  Speaker 1: so you can be ready. He simply says, I know
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  Speaker 1: the plans. My sovereign will is such that it is
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  Speaker 1: all put together. Isaiah 55 tells us that his ways
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  Speaker 1: are high above our ways and beyond our thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: They are different.
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  Speaker 1: They are in another world, a different perspective. But the
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  Speaker 1: Lord knows his plans that he has for us. And
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  Speaker 1: there's good news at the end. They are plans for
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  Speaker 1: welfare and not for calamity.
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  Speaker 2: To give us a future and a hope.
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  Speaker 1: The ultimate plan our Lord has for us is not
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  Speaker 1: a calamitous, fatalistic, heartbreaking, life-ending plan designed to disturb or
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  Speaker 1: corrupt our faith. It is a plan that is profound
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  Speaker 1: and it's different than you and I would have ever
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  Speaker 1: expected or planned. In response to this first lesson, I
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  Speaker 1: have some pretty simple advice.
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  Speaker 2: Be ready for anything. And I mean anything.
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  Speaker 1: I heard from a friend in our church just a
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  Speaker 1: few moments ago, a friend of his who works at EDS,
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  Speaker 1: making a great deal of money, enjoying a prosperity that
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  Speaker 1: was unusual for him and for his family, got notice
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  Speaker 1: from the guard that he was being called up, He
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  Speaker 1: has to leave his work to go and serve in
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  Speaker 1: the guard. And in serving, he will need to sell
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  Speaker 1: his home. They will need to become familiar again with
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  Speaker 1: a salary income and a lifestyle that is altogether different
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  Speaker 1: from what they've been used to all of these years,
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  Speaker 1: especially while growing into the position he had but no
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  Speaker 1: longer has. And it came like a bolt out of
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  Speaker 1: the blue. You don't know that you'll have your children
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  Speaker 1: by the end of this month. You don't know that
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  Speaker 1: their future is any more secure than you know your.
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  Speaker 2: Future is secure.
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  Speaker 1: What you enjoy today, you may not be enjoying this
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  Speaker 1: time next year. This isn't designed to make you afraid.
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  Speaker 1: It's designed to help get you ready. I remind you
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  Speaker 1: these are principles to live with.
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  Speaker 2: And to remember.
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  Speaker 1: Job's response, verse 20, is absolutely remarkable. Job arose and
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  Speaker 1: tore his robe. and shaved his head and fell to
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  Speaker 1: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: And worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: He said, naked I came from my mother's womb and
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  Speaker 1: naked I will return.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord gave. The Lord has taken away. Blessed be
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  Speaker 2: the name of the Lord through all this.
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  Speaker 1: We read Job did not sin, nor did he blame God.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson number two. A vertical perspective will keep us from
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  Speaker 1: horizontal panic. A vertical perspective will keep us from horizontal panic.
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  Speaker 1: Don't misunderstand. Job doesn't escape into denial. He faces the music,
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  Speaker 1: somber and sad that it is.
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  Speaker 2: He's overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he tore his robe. He's broken and saddened
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  Speaker 1: and bankrupt. That's why he shaves his head and sits
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  Speaker 1: in ashes. He refuses to escape emotionally through denial. He
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  Speaker 1: falls to the ground and worships. What a remarkable response.
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  Speaker 1: His vertical perspective is firm, clear, in place. Nothing horizontal
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  Speaker 1: will cause this man to panic.
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  Speaker 2: I had, I enjoyed, I was blessed, I've lost. They're
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  Speaker 2: no longer with me. I'm heartbroken.
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  Speaker 1: But the same God who gave is the God who
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  Speaker 1: took away.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name. I serve and honor and praise
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  Speaker 2: and walk with him. When I was back in this
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  Speaker 2: passage several years, several weeks ago, I read for you
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  Speaker 2: Francis Anderson's words.
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  Speaker 1: Time has a way of erasing comments that are made
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  Speaker 1: in days past, and I return to a part of
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  Speaker 1: what he wrote in his fine work on Job. Job
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  Speaker 1: finds nothing wrong with what has happened to him. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, Job's trial enters a new phase, the most
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  Speaker 1: trying of all. He never curses God, but all his
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  Speaker 1: human relationships are broken.
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  Speaker 2: His attitude is the same as before.
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  Speaker 1: It is equally right for God to give gifts and
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  Speaker 1: to retrieve them. It is equally right for God to
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  Speaker 1: send good or adversity. Then he adds, It is easier
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  Speaker 1: to lower your view of God than to raise your
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  Speaker 1: faith to such a height. When things are rocking along
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  Speaker 1: comfortably and enjoyably and with good health and with a
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  Speaker 1: full family, my, my, How high is our view of God?
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  Speaker 1: How thrilled we are with those verses of Scripture. How
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  Speaker 1: we hang on the words of the sermon and we
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  Speaker 1: sing the songs of Zion. But when the bottom drops out,
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  Speaker 1: our song is taken from us. And we begin to wonder,
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  Speaker 1: was our view of God here really the right view
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  Speaker 1: since we're now here? It's easy to lower one's view
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  Speaker 1: of God when hardship assaults us. That vertical perspective will
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  Speaker 1: save the day. Well, it got worse. It just got worse.
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  Speaker 1: Job does not sin or blame God, which frustrates Satan.
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  Speaker 1: And does not surprise our God who already knew Job.
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  Speaker 2: Would be a man of integrity. So there was another day.
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  Speaker 2: Round two. And Satan comes out swinging. The Lord asks,
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  Speaker 2: have you noticed my servant Job?
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  Speaker 1: It must have been a great moment in that encounter
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  Speaker 1: when the Lord could point to Job.
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  Speaker 2: There has been no break in his faith or trust.
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  Speaker 2: And Satan has to face the music.
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  Speaker 1: But Satan then says, ah, you touch his life, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be another story. Skin for skin, chapter 2, verse 4,
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  Speaker 1: all that a man has, he will give for his life.
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  Speaker 1: Put forth your hand now and touch his bone and
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  Speaker 1: his flesh. He'll curse you to your face. He repeats
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  Speaker 1: the charge, the warning. So the Lord said, he's in
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  Speaker 1: your power, only spare his life.
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  Speaker 3: None of us know what a single day may hold.
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  Speaker 3: Job certainly didn't. And when his world came apart, he
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  Speaker 3: did something remarkable. He fell to the ground and worshipped. Today,
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Swindoll reminds us that a vertical perspective is what
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  Speaker 3: keeps us from horizontal panic. When we keep our eyes
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  Speaker 3: on God, no earthly loss can level us. This 22-part
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  Speaker 3: series concludes a week from today. So we encourage you
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  Speaker 3: to get in touch for these resources while it's still
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  Speaker 3: fresh on your mind. The Old Testament book of Job
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  Speaker 3: provides a shocking picture of human suffering. Many of the
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  Speaker 3: images are pitiful, frankly, and seem so unfair. But that's
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  Speaker 3: the way life is, right? Sometimes it feels like nothing
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  Speaker 3: more than an endless sequence of unwanted surprises. And yet,
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  Speaker 3: even still, Job deliberately chose triumph over tragedy. For this
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  Speaker 3: reason and more, we encourage you to get better acquainted
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  Speaker 3: with Job by using the practical Bible study resources that
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  Speaker 3: Insight for Living offers. We invite you to request the
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  Speaker 3: Searching the Scriptures Bible Study.
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  Speaker 2: Workbook for this series.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Job, a Man of Heroic Endurance. This spiral-bound
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  Speaker 3: workbook is just one item in a bundle of resources.
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  Speaker 3: The collection also includes 22 sermons on CD. Plus, the
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  Speaker 3: bundle includes Chuck Swindoll's full-length biography of Job, In his book,
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  Speaker 3: more than 300 pages in length, you'll read Chuck's meticulous
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  Speaker 3: expose of Job's life. And along the way, Chuck equips
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  Speaker 3: you to deal with adversity of any kind. There are
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  Speaker 3: three powerful resources in the bundle. The spiral-bound Bible study workbook,
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  Speaker 3: the full collection of sermons from Chuck, and his comprehensive
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  Speaker 3: biography of Job, a man of heroic endurance. You can
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  Speaker 3: find all the details at insight.org slash offer. Or call
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  Speaker 3: us at 800- What are the key lessons we can
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  Speaker 3: learn from Job's remarkable story?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Bill Meyer.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Swindoll answers that question tomorrow on Insight for Living.
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  Speaker 3: The preceding message, What Job Teaches Us About Ourselves, was
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