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What Job Teaches Us about Our God, Part 3 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Grace. The book of Job teaches us about grace. When
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  Speaker 1: he blesses Job, he doesn't bless a perfect man, he
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  Speaker 1: blesses an imperfect man. If he were perfect, he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be repenting.
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  Speaker 2: When are we going to get it? You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to earn it.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you just be downright selfish, and he still blesses. Grace.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes, God never answers our hardest question. And somehow, even
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  Speaker 3: in the uncertainty, we find that's enough. Job spent crisis
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  Speaker 3: after crisis asking why. And when God finally spoke, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't explain. God didn't defend himself. He simply revealed who
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  Speaker 3: he is. And somehow, that changed everything for Job. Today
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  Speaker 3: on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll brings our study of Job.
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  Speaker 2: To a close.
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  Speaker 3: And shows us how a man who lost everything came
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  Speaker 3: to trust the God who gives no easy answers. Chuck
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  Speaker 3: titled his message, What Job Teaches Us About Our God.
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  Speaker 1: Job is set through God's lecture, which began in chapter
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  Speaker 1: 38 and 39, went into chapter 40, chapter 41, and
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  Speaker 1: he never answers the questions. He escorts Job around the
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  Speaker 1: universe and introduces him to several of the animals of
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  Speaker 1: the field and the birds of the air.
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  Speaker 2: But he doesn't answer Job's questions.
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  Speaker 1: And remarkably, at the end of the book, Job is
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  Speaker 1: submitting to this God. This heavenly Father who permitted, even allowed,
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  Speaker 1: all of these things to occur. And yet he submits.
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  Speaker 1: Surely he knows some things of God. that we need
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  Speaker 1: to know as well, without having all of our questions answered.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 1, chapter 42. Then Job answered the Lord and said,
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  Speaker 1: I know that you can do all things. Number one
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  Speaker 1: in a list of seven, there is nothing God cannot do.
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  Speaker 1: Having heard and having realized the limitless power of his
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  Speaker 1: infinite God, Job puts his observation and realization into the
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  Speaker 1: simplest of terms. You can do all things. There is
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  Speaker 1: nothing God cannot do.
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  Speaker 2: There's a second.
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  Speaker 1: And I find it at the end of verse 2.
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  Speaker 1: No purpose of yours can be thwarted. It is impossible
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  Speaker 1: to restrain or nullify God's purposes. God's intentions can neither
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  Speaker 1: be altered nor disrupted. What he purposes will transpire without delay,
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  Speaker 1: without hindrance, and without failure. Which brings us to a third.
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  Speaker 1: God's plans are beyond our understanding And too deep to explain.
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  Speaker 1: God's plans are beyond our understanding. And too deep to explain.
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  Speaker 1: See how Job puts it in verse 3. I have
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  Speaker 1: declared that which I did not understand. Things too wonderful
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  Speaker 1: for me. Which I did not know. That took some
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  Speaker 1: humility to say that. Here now and I will speak.
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  Speaker 1: I will ask you. If you ask me to give
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  Speaker 1: you the core message of the book of Job, I'd
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  Speaker 1: give you chapter 42 and verse 3. Coming to an
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  Speaker 1: understanding that God's plans are beyond our understanding and too
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  Speaker 1: deep to explain. Number four. Only through God's instruction are
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  Speaker 1: we able to humble ourselves and rest.
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  Speaker 2: Only through God's.
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  Speaker 1: Instruction are we able to humble ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: And rest.
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  Speaker 1: Where do I get that? Into verse 4, down through
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  Speaker 1: verse 6. I will ask you and you instruct me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, I will ask you. You reveal to me
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is I need to know about yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: about these circumstances, I have heard of you with the
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  Speaker 1: hearing of the ear. Now my eye sees you.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, I've got an argument.
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  Speaker 1: No. Therefore, I retract and repent. And there's no force.
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  Speaker 1: He says, you instruct me. And as a result of
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  Speaker 1: your instruction, I will willingly submit and accept it. Remember
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  Speaker 1: my comment about repentance? A contrite heart makes no demands
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  Speaker 1: and has no expectations. Makes no demands and has no expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Job has no demands and has no expectations. Now then,
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  Speaker 1: number five. When the day of reckoning arrives, God is
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  Speaker 1: always fair. When the day of reckoning arrives, God is
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  Speaker 1: always fair. Remember my comment earlier when we looked at
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  Speaker 1: this thought, all God's accounts are not settled at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the month? It applies here. Patiently and with
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  Speaker 1: great long-suffering, God has been listening and taking note of
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  Speaker 1: who is saying what. Not one idle word slips by
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  Speaker 1: his attention. He knows who spoke what. He knows where
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  Speaker 1: error started and stopped. He knows who spoke truth and why.
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  Speaker 1: He deals with wrongdoers at the time of his final accounting.
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  Speaker 1: And it's in his timetable. He blesses the one who
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  Speaker 1: has walked with him in his timetable. He forgives those
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  Speaker 1: who bring their offerings and offer them fully and sincerely.
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  Speaker 1: And he restores Job who prayed for his.
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  Speaker 2: Friends and prayed for them greatly with an open heart.
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  Speaker 1: Put in the margin of your Bible, Hebrews 6.10, God
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  Speaker 1: is not unjust to forget. Eugene Peterson in the message
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  Speaker 1: renders that God doesn't miss anything. Hebrews 6.10. Now, some
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  Speaker 1: of you have been terribly abused. You have been victims
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  Speaker 1: of the worst kind of mistreatment. You have been taken
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  Speaker 1: advantage of. You have, whether young or middle age, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the age, you have been treated unfairly.
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  Speaker 2: Every person in this.
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  Speaker 1: Room has that in common.
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  Speaker 2: So have I.
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  Speaker 1: Every one of us could give stories of abuse and
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  Speaker 1: neglect and misrepresentation and unfair treatment. God does not forget.
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  Speaker 1: He just doesn't march to our timetable. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted God to zap Eliphaz at the moment he said
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  Speaker 1: that stupid thing to Job. He's waited through all of
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  Speaker 1: these speeches and now finally says, Eliphaz, Bildad, so far
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  Speaker 1: you're out to lunch. Or, you know, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a Swindoll paraphrase. He tells them they're wrong. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: speak correctly of me as my servant Job. Job hadn't
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  Speaker 1: heard until now that he's spoken correctly. See how it
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  Speaker 1: appears in verse 7. After the Lord had spoken these
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  Speaker 1: words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite,
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  Speaker 1: My wrath is kindled against you and against your two
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  Speaker 1: friends because you've not spoken of me what is right
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  Speaker 1: as my servant. God heard.
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  Speaker 2: He heard.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't say anything at the time, but he heard it.
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  Speaker 1: He is not unjust to forget one idle word. He
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  Speaker 1: did not overlook one wrong act committed against you.
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  Speaker 2: He knows his plan. His plan is unfolding.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a mistaken plan. It's not a frustrated plan
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  Speaker 1: where God sits on the edge of heaven, biting his nails,
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  Speaker 1: wondering what he's going to do with that wrong individual.
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  Speaker 1: He knows exactly what he's going to do, but he's
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  Speaker 1: going to do it at his time.
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  Speaker 2: Job sees that now.
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  Speaker 1: So Job, rather than looking at his friends saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, see there, I told you it was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't do that. There's none of that in Job's heart.
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  Speaker 1: That's why when God says, I'm going to have Job
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  Speaker 1: pray for you, Job says, Heavenly Father, and he begins
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  Speaker 1: his prayer for his friends, friends who wronged him.
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  Speaker 2: Who added to his suffering.
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  Speaker 1: How could he do that? He realizes that the day
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  Speaker 1: of reckoning has come. He submitted to that. Now, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: he says, take seven bulls and rams, and my servant
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  Speaker 1: Job will offer up a burnt offering. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what Job does. Job prays for his friends. God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: miss anything. Number six. It's getting better. No one can
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  Speaker 1: be compared to God when it comes to blessings. Verses
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  Speaker 1: 11 to 15. Well, let's put 10 in there with it.
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  Speaker 1: 10 through 15. No one can be compared to God
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to blessings. The Lord restored the fortunes,
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  Speaker 1: verse 10 of Job, when he prayed for his friends.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord increased all that Job had, twofold. Had his
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters and his family come back at a
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  Speaker 1: family reunion. We looked at this. They all gave him money.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 12, the Lord blessed the latter days of Job
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  Speaker 1: more than his beginning. 13, he had seven sons and
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  Speaker 1: three daughters. He names them, and the blessing falls even
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  Speaker 1: on the daughters as well, I'm sure, as the sons.
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  Speaker 1: No one can be compared to God when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to blessings. Did you miss the words? The end of
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  Speaker 1: verse 9, mark it. The Lord accepted. Beginning of verse 10,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord restored. End of verse 10, the Lord increased.
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  Speaker 1: Beginning of verse 12, the Lord blessed. Those are words
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  Speaker 1: of grace.
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  Speaker 2: Accepted. Restored. Increased. Blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me warn you of something. Because you're conditioned,
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  Speaker 1: as I have been for so many years of my life,
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  Speaker 1: you're conditioned in this cynical world because of the fallout
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  Speaker 1: of our cynical society. You and I are programmed to
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  Speaker 1: think it's cool to rush by words like this and
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  Speaker 1: to hurry on to the words that are negative. Heavy trials,
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  Speaker 1: mold in your house, fractured families, high rate of divorce,
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  Speaker 1: economic woes, the homeless, the broken hearts, the brutal crimes,
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  Speaker 1: the drug abuse, the disasters, the premature deaths, the loss
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  Speaker 1: of jobs, on and on. That's what makes the evening news.
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  Speaker 1: They never say, now tomorrow night we'll have just good news.
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  Speaker 1: They say, tomorrow night, you think this was bad. Tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: we have an expose. And you go, what channel? What
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  Speaker 1: time is that coming on? And the expose ends with,
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  Speaker 1: you think this expose was bad.
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  Speaker 2: When we show you.
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  Speaker 1: That expose, you will not, that's tomorrow night. Now you
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  Speaker 1: watch in tomorrow night. I mean, even the weatherman says
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  Speaker 1: partly cloudy. Never says mainly sunny. It's partly cloudy. It
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  Speaker 1: may rain. Never says it probably won't. And furthermore, he's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, who does God bless? Job.
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  Speaker 2: Job.
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  Speaker 1: Job.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter 3, he cursed the day he was born.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter 3, he resented the fact he didn't die when
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  Speaker 1: he was placed on his mother's breast. Chapter 3, at
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  Speaker 1: the end, he says, I am not at peace.
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  Speaker 2: I am not restful.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, I resent what has happened. That's Job,
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  Speaker 1: who was wonderfully blessed at the end of the book. Why? Grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get it. We don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: You work hard, you get a promotion. You work harder,
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  Speaker 1: you get a bigger promotion. You work super hard, you
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  Speaker 1: run the company. Then you can take advantage of people
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  Speaker 1: who work and work hard and work super hard. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way the society thinks. Grace comes along and says,
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  Speaker 1: you're sick today, I'm going to bless you mightily. You're
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  Speaker 1: not doing too well, I'm going to bless you greatly.
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  Speaker 1: You blew it, I'm still going to bless you because
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  Speaker 1: grace doesn't wait for works to catch up. I preached
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  Speaker 1: that sermon last week and poured myself into that one
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  Speaker 1: like I poured myself into this one, and you might think, boy,
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  Speaker 1: he must have, man, he must live a fabulous life. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me just tell you, before you go that way,
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  Speaker 1: I went to grocery stores today, and one of our
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  Speaker 1: things on the list was eggs. I wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: them in the cart and get them home before Ken
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  Speaker 1: Cooper caught me buying eggs, and so I quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Put them in the bag, and I got home, and
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  Speaker 2: I got bags of groceries. You know, why do you
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  Speaker 2: carry all of it?
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  Speaker 1: But you get the door, you go, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: get the door, you shove the door open, and you
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  Speaker 1: walk in, and guess what bag drops?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I go, oh my, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Reach down and I get Cynthia's in the other room
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  Speaker 1: working and doesn't know any about this and I'm at
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  Speaker 1: the counter and I'm feeling sorry for myself I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: all of this and I'm getting the eggs and I
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  Speaker 1: lift the little tray that holds the eggs in the
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  Speaker 1: refrigerator out I think there's no eggs and so there's
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  Speaker 1: one in there.
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  Speaker 2: And I so there's now egg on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: And so I I get down and clean that up
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  Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, well, it's good.
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  Speaker 2: I look in the box.
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  Speaker 1: I think, well, it didn't break any, so I lift
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  Speaker 1: the neg out, and not only had it broken, it
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  Speaker 1: comes down all over me, and I totally lost it.
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  Speaker 2: At that moment, I lost it.
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  Speaker 1: Totally.
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  Speaker 2: You could have heard me three doors away.
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  Speaker 1: And my wife walks in and says, is there something wrong?
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  Speaker 2: I said, Or can I help?
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  Speaker 1: No!
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  Speaker 2: I've got it!
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  Speaker 1: So I'm down cleaning it up. You know what? I
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  Speaker 1: didn't deserve to live through the night.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I woke up this morning wonderfully blessed. Grace, grace, grace, grace, grace.
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  Speaker 1: The book of Job teaches us about grace. When he
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  Speaker 1: blesses Job, he doesn't bless a perfect man. He blesses
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  Speaker 1: an imperfect man. If he were perfect, he wouldn't be repenting.
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  Speaker 1: If he said the right thing, he wouldn't be retracting.
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  Speaker 2: When are we going to get it? You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to earn it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to work real hard and hold your
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  Speaker 1: breath for five minutes and go straight home. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to, you know, give a dollar to every homeless person.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't have to just have your heart broken
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  Speaker 1: over every sad story. Sometimes you just be downright selfish
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  Speaker 1: and he still blesses. We wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: We say, you do that again. You sleep outside. You
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  Speaker 2: think Nebuchadnezzar had it bad.
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  Speaker 1: Wait till I deal with you. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because we don't get grace. We don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: Job is beside himself. The boys are gone. Next thing
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  Speaker 1: he knows, there's a knock on his door, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of guys who need work, and they know
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  Speaker 1: three other guys, and before you know it, he's got
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  Speaker 1: his family there, and he's got the money, and he
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  Speaker 1: hires them, and he looks up, and the camels are
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  Speaker 1: coming back, and the donkeys, and they're all building his buildings,
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  Speaker 1: and the house is getting rebuilt, and the wife says
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  Speaker 1: to him one morning, Hey, buddy, You and I are
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  Speaker 1: going to be parents. She does it ten times.
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  Speaker 2: Stop, Lord, stop. It's enough.
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  Speaker 1: Number seven. After all this, Job lived 140 years and
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  Speaker 1: saw his sons and his grandsons. Four generations. And then finally,
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  Speaker 1: he died. An old man and full of days.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that great?
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Only God can fill our final years
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  Speaker 1: with divine music that frees us to live above our circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Only God can fill our final years with divine music
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  Speaker 1: that frees us to live above our circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: It frees us. It frees us.
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  Speaker 1: When I have ceased to break my wings against the
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  Speaker 1: faultiness of things, wrote Sarah Teasdale, and learned that compromises
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  Speaker 1: wait behind each hardly open gate, when I can look
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  Speaker 1: life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise,
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  Speaker 1: life will have given me the truth and taken in
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  Speaker 1: exchange my youth. Job has truth. Job is freed. Freed
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  Speaker 1: from the prison of fears. Freed from the tiny cell
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  Speaker 1: of limited thinking and negative attitudes. He's freed from grudges.
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  Speaker 1: He's freed from a works theology. He's freed. He's free.
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  Speaker 2: Free at last. Praise God Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: He's free and he lives to over 200 years of age.
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  Speaker 2: Kids, grandkids, great grandkids. All around him.
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  Speaker 1: And he can hardly remember when he got the boils
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  Speaker 1: back so many years ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's music.
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  Speaker 1: It's music.
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  Speaker 3: Music.
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  Speaker 1: That only God can bring. Some struggling with dementia. Old
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  Speaker 1: age is not kind to the body. Some battling a
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  Speaker 1: loss of memory. Some physically unable to keep up. Feeling
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  Speaker 1: shelved when they were once engaged in life in the
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  Speaker 1: fast lane. And they live full of days only God
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  Speaker 1: can do that. Remember the film, The Shawshank Redemption? It's
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  Speaker 1: a great film. that makes you think, lifts you beyond
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  Speaker 1: the prison cells of those men. Tim Robbins plays the
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  Speaker 1: part of Andy, and he's with the other prisoners struggling
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  Speaker 1: along with him. He carves chess men from stone, you
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  Speaker 1: may remember. and petitions the state for books for the
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  Speaker 1: prison library and helps inmates get their high school diploma.
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  Speaker 1: These are just a few of the ways that he
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  Speaker 1: held on to his humanity. One other way cost him
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  Speaker 1: two weeks in solitary confinement, you may remember. He gains
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  Speaker 1: access to the prison's public address system and plays a
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  Speaker 1: record of great music for all the prison to hear.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time. As the music streams through the
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  Speaker 1: washrooms and the prison yard, the inmates stop and stand transfixed.
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  Speaker 1: The actor Morgan Freeman, playing the part of Red, has
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  Speaker 1: been the narrator of the story, and he says this
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  Speaker 1: about that moment. I have no idea to this day
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  Speaker 1: what those two Italian ladies were singing about.
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  Speaker 2: Truth is, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think they were singing about something so
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  Speaker 1: beautiful it can't be expressed in words and makes your
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  Speaker 1: heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices
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  Speaker 1: soared higher and farther than anybody in the great place
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  Speaker 1: dared to dream. is like some beautiful bird flapped into
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  Speaker 1: Alexander's cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for
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  Speaker 1: the briefest of moments, Everlast Man in Shawshank.
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  Speaker 2: Felt free.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the music of God does for you when
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  Speaker 1: you end your life well. free at last. Let's bow together.
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  Speaker 2: Our journey with Job has.
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  Speaker 1: Come to an end. But our friendship will go on
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  Speaker 1: for a lifetime. Job dies an old man in full
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  Speaker 1: of years. He finally, truly came to know the living God.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't in spite of his pain. It was because
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  Speaker 1: of it. The pain drove him. Surrendered. And silent. Before
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  Speaker 1: his God. And he trusted him. As I invite you
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  Speaker 1: to trust him. Whatever may be the prison. Of your circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Let God be God. Remind yourself faithfully and regularly you
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  Speaker 1: are one dependent soul, not in charge. Limited, sinful, needy.
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  Speaker 1: And remember the cross. That's where we first saw the
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  Speaker 1: light and the burden rolled away. Come to him today.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the music. Listen to the music. It's a
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  Speaker 1: love song that invites you in. Thank you, Father, for
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  Speaker 1: your faithful care. We even thank you for your mysterious ways.
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  Speaker 1: We entrust to you these lessons we've begun to learn.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for our friend whom we've met in this book,
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  Speaker 1: for the things he has taught us, more importantly, what
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  Speaker 1: he has modeled. Thank you for your grace, which lifts
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  Speaker 1: us above our prison walls and gives us a song
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  Speaker 1: to sing and hope to cling to.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. Job's story doesn't end in bitterness, but in freedom.
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  Speaker 3: A man lifted above his prison walls with a song
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  Speaker 3: to sing and hope to cling to. You're listening to
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  Speaker 3: us that God's grace can do that for anyone. It
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  Speaker 3: meets us where we are, limited, needy, empty-handed, and gives
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  Speaker 3: us music where there was once only silence. Wherever this
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  Speaker 3: season finds you, that same grace is reaching toward you now.
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  Speaker 3: If you're ready to learn more, and if you're eager
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  Speaker 3: to put this biblical wisdom to work in your life,
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  Speaker 3: than 300 pages in length, you'll read Chuck's meticulous expose
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  Speaker 3: of Job's story. And along the way, he infuses practical
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, we're excited.
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  Speaker 3: To kick off Chuck's brand new study through the gospel
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  Speaker 1: I'm Bill Maia.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Swindoll kicks off our next study tomorrow right here
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