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Responding to Bad Counsel │ Msg 622 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: We're in the midst of our study of Job, and
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  Speaker 1: we have come to chapter eight today. I'm calling today's
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  Speaker 1: sermon continuing the verbal this fight. I just want you
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  Speaker 1: to understand that has to do with Job, not some
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  Speaker 1: board meeting or something else that's gone on. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have those kind of meetings here, thank goodness, but Job
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  Speaker 1: certainly had them with his alleged friends. I want to
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  Speaker 1: read sections of chapters eight, nine, and ten. Please follow along. Then, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: Dad the shoe height answered, how long will you say
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  Speaker 1: these things? And the words of your mouth be a
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  Speaker 1: mighty wind? Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty
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  Speaker 1: pervert what is right? If your sons send against him,
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  Speaker 1: then he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
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  Speaker 1: If you would seek God and implore the compassion of
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty, if you are pure and upright, surely now
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  Speaker 1: he would rouse himself for you and restore your righteous estate.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine. Then Job answered, in truth, I know that
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  Speaker 1: this is so, But how can a man be in
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  Speaker 1: the right before God? If one wished to dispute with him,
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  Speaker 1: he could not answer him once in a thousand times,
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  Speaker 1: wise in heart and mighty in strength, who has defied
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  Speaker 1: him without harm verse thirty two. For he is not
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  Speaker 1: a man as I am, that I may answer him,
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  Speaker 1: that we may go to court together. There is no umpire.
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  Speaker 1: There's no arbitrator between us, no defense attorney between us,
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  Speaker 1: who may lay his hand upon us. Both Let him
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  Speaker 1: remove his rod from me, and let not dread of
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  Speaker 1: him terrify me. Then across the page, just one section more,
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  Speaker 1: in chapter ten, verse seventeen, you renew your witness against
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  Speaker 1: me and increase your anger toward me. Hardship after hardship
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  Speaker 1: is with me. Why then, have you brought me out
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  Speaker 1: of the womb? Would that I had died and know
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  Speaker 1: I had seen me? I should have been as though
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  Speaker 1: I had not been carried from womb to tomb the
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  Speaker 1: words of a broken man. If you have ever been there,
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  Speaker 1: you can identify. If not, perhaps today's message will prepare
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  Speaker 1: you for a time when that may come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Would you bow with me for prayer? Please? It is easy,
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  Speaker 1: our father, to feel distant from the one we worship
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  Speaker 1: due to your silence. We are so accustomed to face
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  Speaker 1: to face encounters to dialogue, everything from shallow talk shows
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  Speaker 1: all the way to dinner table discussion and deep insightful
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  Speaker 1: talk with close friends and family. But with you, we've
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  Speaker 1: never heard your voice, we've never seen your face. We therefore,
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  Speaker 1: at times struggle, we confess to you, and in this
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  Speaker 1: faith and of relationship we are left to trust. And
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  Speaker 1: that is as it should be. That is as it
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  Speaker 1: should be. And so our Father, we say with the
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  Speaker 1: songwriter that we need a rock that is higher than we,
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  Speaker 1: one in whom we can hide. We need the conflicts
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  Speaker 1: and the sorrows that attack us to lead us. Rather
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  Speaker 1: than to panic to a place of solace and quiet.
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  Speaker 1: We would hide in you, our father. We would find
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  Speaker 1: our hiding place in yourself, your person, your protection, your presence.
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  Speaker 1: Always looking for crutches to lean on, we come to
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  Speaker 1: days like this and we remind, we are remind that
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  Speaker 1: in Christ we have all that is necessary. Forgive us
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  Speaker 1: for the substitutes we put in in his place. Forgive us,
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  Speaker 1: our Father, for those wasted hours when we trusted in
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  Speaker 1: the arm of the flesh, which has nothing to offer
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  Speaker 1: but disappointment and discontentment. Our Father, we come today confident
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  Speaker 1: that you were able to meet our every need. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: our every need. We have no other like you. Peter
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  Speaker 1: was right to whom else shall we turn you have
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  Speaker 1: the words of eternal life. But it gets difficult, It
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  Speaker 1: gets complicated. In life's demands. We find our selves not
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  Speaker 1: in the same circumstances, thanks be to God as Job,
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  Speaker 1: but in similar straits. We wrestle and struggle, and we
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  Speaker 1: long to know what it is to be still and
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  Speaker 1: learn again that He is God, that you are God,
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  Speaker 1: and there is no other. In the quietness of this
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  Speaker 1: time of offering, remind us once again that you are
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  Speaker 1: sufficient in all things. And as we come to the
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  Speaker 1: Rock that is higher than we, it is there we
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  Speaker 1: have solitude and security and hope and reassurance. In a
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  Speaker 1: special way. Place your hand of blessing upon these gifts
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  Speaker 1: that are given out of hearts that are consecrated and
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  Speaker 1: committed to the work of ministry. We pray that we
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  Speaker 1: will hold them loosely and dispense them wisely, remembering that
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  Speaker 1: they are not ours, they are years. And we commit
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  Speaker 1: them to You again now as we do ourselves, in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Christ, our Rock. We pray. Everyone said Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Job and his friends remind me of a forest tale
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  Speaker 1: that comes from the northern part of Canada. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: as though there were a group of there was a
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  Speaker 1: group of porcupines who on cold nights would huddle together
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  Speaker 1: and to stay warm, they pushed up close together, but
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  Speaker 1: even though the weather was cold, their quills were sharp,
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  Speaker 1: and so they then, because they pricked one another, began
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  Speaker 1: to move further apart, and then the cold blast of
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  Speaker 1: icy wind would blow on them, and they would shuffle
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  Speaker 1: back together, and they'd stay long enough until they could
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  Speaker 1: no longer stand the pricks from one another, and they
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  Speaker 1: would push apart. And they continued this strange dance through
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  Speaker 1: the night. As one wag described it, they needed each other,
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  Speaker 1: but they kept needling each other. And it reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of Job, who doesn't need the presence of a friend
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  Speaker 1: when all hell has broken loose in one's life, and
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  Speaker 1: who as a friend, wants to stay away from someone
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  Speaker 1: who is going through the depths like Job was going through.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing that there might be something that they could say
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  Speaker 1: that that would bring sympathy and comfort and encouragement, and
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  Speaker 1: so they came together. But the closer they got together
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  Speaker 1: is we're learning the more though they needed each other,
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  Speaker 1: they kept needling one another, and rather than carrying out
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  Speaker 1: their purpose, which is so clearly stated in chapter two
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  Speaker 1: and verse eleven, of the book of Job. They came
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  Speaker 1: for the purpose of sympathizing with him and comforting him.
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  Speaker 1: They did neither. As a matter of fact, this verbal
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  Speaker 1: fistfight only got more severe. One man describes it this way.
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  Speaker 1: Job was wounded by their harshness, stung by their censures,
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  Speaker 1: exasperated by their reproaches, and driven into antagonism by their arguments.
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  Speaker 1: The insoluble conflict which they assume, tends to place before
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  Speaker 1: his mind a distorted image of the character of God.
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  Speaker 1: God appears to be torturing him for crimes which he
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  Speaker 1: has not committed, to be relentlessly pursuing him as an
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  Speaker 1: implacable foe, and without justice or reason, to be employing
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  Speaker 1: his resistless power to crush him to the earth. This
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  Speaker 1: is the phantom which his friends are constantly setting before him,
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  Speaker 1: this phantom, apparently so real. Job is incessantly obliged to
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  Speaker 1: fight or it would drive him to absolute despair. And
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  Speaker 1: so he does. And so they talk, and he responds,
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  Speaker 1: and they keep talking, and he responds, and they keep
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  Speaker 1: offering these shallow answers or philosophical meanderings, and he fights
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  Speaker 1: to survive. H. L. Mencken was the one who first said,
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  Speaker 1: there is always an easy solution to every human problem, neat,
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  Speaker 1: plausible and wrong. They came with their neat answers that
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  Speaker 1: sounded so plausible to them, but they missed sympathy and
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  Speaker 1: comfort by a mile. Eliphas was the first to speak,
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  Speaker 1: you may recall, and he came bringing experience as the
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  Speaker 1: basis of his message. I have learned, I have observed,
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  Speaker 1: I have seen, and he brings all of that to Job,
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  Speaker 1: as if Job needed to hear, that Job answers him
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  Speaker 1: with greater wisdom. And just about this time that Elafas
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  Speaker 1: steps back. The tag team match continues as a man
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  Speaker 1: named Bill Dad verse one of chapter eight steps on
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  Speaker 1: the scene. And if you think Elafaz was offensive, you
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  Speaker 1: need to meet Bill Dad. I mean, this man is
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  Speaker 1: even less tactful. He talk about a human porcupine. Look
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  Speaker 1: at his opening line verse one. Bill Dad, the shoe
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  Speaker 1: height answered, how long when you say these things and
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  Speaker 1: the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? You win? Bag.
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  Speaker 1: Now can you imagine sitting there, fevered from the sores
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  Speaker 1: that cover your body, the memory of ten children now
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  Speaker 1: buried on the hillside, perhaps by your own hand, your
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  Speaker 1: wife whispering in your ear you need to just curse
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  Speaker 1: God and let him take you off the earth. Elafas
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  Speaker 1: coming with his no account council, And on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: along comes a second friend who is probably a little
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  Speaker 1: younger than Elephaz, though old in age. Bill Dad begins
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  Speaker 1: by saying, you're a bag of wind Job, as he
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  Speaker 1: listened to these lines of Job that are recorded in
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  Speaker 1: chapter six and seven that we have already looked at.
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  Speaker 1: We get to chapter eight, Bill Dad launches into three
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  Speaker 1: realms of argument. Let me give you those realms, and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll touch on them before we read Job's answer.
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  Speaker 1: The character of God is in verses three through seven.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Dad speaks of that, the wisdom of the past,
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  Speaker 1: which is his basis for speaking verses eight and nine,
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  Speaker 1: and then or really eight through ten, and then the
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  Speaker 1: evidence of nature, which he goes into in verses eleven
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen, followed by a few words of conclusion, none
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  Speaker 1: of which brings sympathy, none of which offer comfort. First, Bildad,
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  Speaker 1: after calling him an empty wind bag, turns to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord God and gives Job a lesson in theology. That's
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  Speaker 1: always nice when you're trying to survive. Your mouth is
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  Speaker 1: covered with sores as well. You can't eat your food,
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  Speaker 1: you can't sleep at night, you can't find peace during
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  Speaker 1: the daytime. And on top of that, here comes a
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  Speaker 1: preacher with his comments about God, all of which you
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  Speaker 1: already know. And the so it was with Job, as
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, look at what he says. He says, does
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  Speaker 1: God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
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  Speaker 1: And if that's not bad enough, get this line. If
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  Speaker 1: your sons sinned against him, he delivered them into the
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  Speaker 1: power of their transgression. Yep, means exactly what you think
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  Speaker 1: it means. I had to read it two or three
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  Speaker 1: times to believe a man would say such a thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's plain that your children sinned against him. Otherwise why
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  Speaker 1: would God had punished him as he did. Not only
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  Speaker 1: are you grieved over the loss of your children, now
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  Speaker 1: this man has the audacity to say that they have
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  Speaker 1: died because God is punishing them due to their transgressions.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing Job just didn't at that point punch him
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  Speaker 1: right in a kiss her. But Job is a man
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  Speaker 1: of enormous patience, and it's good. This book is not
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  Speaker 1: named Chuck. Let me just put it that way. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just put it that way. Okay, if that were
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  Speaker 1: Chuck eight four, you wouldn't read what you just read
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  Speaker 1: of Job's silence. And he hits Job below the belt
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. And he does it in the
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  Speaker 1: name of God. To make matters even worse. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: the pious verse five. If you would seek God as
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  Speaker 1: if he hadn't, if you would implore the compassion of
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty, if you really are pure and upright, surely
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  Speaker 1: now he would rouse himself for you and restore your
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  Speaker 1: righteous estate. The implication is what it's obvious. Since you
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  Speaker 1: too are sinful, Job, God is not able to bring you,
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  Speaker 1: or God is not willing to bring you to a
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  Speaker 1: state of health and relief. You're being punished. Man, You're
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  Speaker 1: going through this because of punishment. Though your beginning was insignificant,
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  Speaker 1: your end will increase greatly. Please inquire the past generation.
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  Speaker 1: So he shoots back to the past earlier, he said, Job,
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  Speaker 1: look up and consider the character of gods. Had this
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  Speaker 1: happened to them because of the sinfulness of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: You've had this happen to you because of sinfulness in
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  Speaker 1: your life. And God, who is holy and just and pure,
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  Speaker 1: can do none other than what he has done, and
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  Speaker 1: as Job reels under that barrage, he now says, to Job,
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  Speaker 1: look back, look back. Job. Verse eight inquire of past generations,
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  Speaker 1: consider the things searched out by their fathers. We are
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  Speaker 1: only of yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth
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  Speaker 1: are as a shadow. Will they not teach you and
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  Speaker 1: tell you and bring forth words from their minds? Bill Dad,
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  Speaker 1: being a traditionalist, says, because we know nothing by comparison,
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  Speaker 1: we need to learn from those of our forefathers, those
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  Speaker 1: in days past. Go back to the patriarchs and listen
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  Speaker 1: to what they would teach us, because our lives are
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  Speaker 1: so brief, and their words linger on through the time
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  Speaker 1: listlessness of of the of the duration of life on
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  Speaker 1: this earth, we can we can draw from that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the tactlessness of Bill Dad really grates on me.
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  Speaker 1: I know, he has some strong things he wants to say,
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  Speaker 1: but you would think he would he would say them carefully.
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  Speaker 1: He reminds me of a physician I know who after
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  Speaker 1: giving a particular individual a treadmill test, and the individual
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  Speaker 1: is rather portly and has finished the treadmill test, and
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  Speaker 1: he's sweating and he's panting, and he steps off the treadmill,
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  Speaker 1: and the doc says, as he looks at the results,
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  Speaker 1: not bad for a guy as fat as you are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's done his best to stay on
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  Speaker 1: the treadmill, and now on top of that, he's told
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  Speaker 1: he's fat. I mean, some people have a great grasp
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  Speaker 1: of the obvious, don't they. Bill Dad is one of them. Now, then,
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  Speaker 1: with the whole idea of cause and effect in mind,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Dad addresses the subject of nature, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: we can learn. You can learn from nature about what
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  Speaker 1: has happened. Notice in verse eleven the mention of the papyrus,
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  Speaker 1: which is a plant of ancient days, the mention of
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  Speaker 1: green in verse twelve, we're in the garden. Now you
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  Speaker 1: can see that the spider at the end of verse
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  Speaker 1: fourteen the garden is mentioned that the end of verse
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  Speaker 1: sixteen roots that wrap around a rock pile. In verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: he's out in nature. Okay. He started with the character
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  Speaker 1: of God. He then went to the past, and he
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  Speaker 1: looked at the evidence of the teaching of those in
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  Speaker 1: the past. And now he looks around. He's looking around
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  Speaker 1: in this wisdom poem, and just as the cause and
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  Speaker 1: effect is true in life, it's true in the world
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  Speaker 1: of nature, then it's true where you find yourself. Let
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  Speaker 1: me draw that together for you. Can the papyrus grow
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  Speaker 1: up without a marsh implication is obviously no. Then, in
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  Speaker 1: good poetic fashion, he repeats similar words, can the rushes
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  Speaker 1: grow without water? The point is that these plants do
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  Speaker 1: not have water, they will wither and die. And the
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  Speaker 1: implication is, Job, you are withering and dying because you're
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  Speaker 1: a hypocrite. It only follows that your hope is perishing
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  Speaker 1: because you haven't a pure heart and a right relationship
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  Speaker 1: before a holy God Verse thirteen. Here is he just
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  Speaker 1: drives it home with a hammer and nail. So are
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  Speaker 1: the paths of all who forget God. What's the implication?
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  Speaker 1: Job has forgotten God, and the hope of the godless
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  Speaker 1: will perish. He's not calling him even godless. And then
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  Speaker 1: he mentions a spider's web whose confidence is fragile, whose
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  Speaker 1: true trust a spider's web? Can you lean on a
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  Speaker 1: spider's web and be sustained? No, of course not, No
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  Speaker 1: matter how confident, The web is fragile and will break. Job,
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  Speaker 1: your confidence is like that. You will soon break and
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  Speaker 1: you will fall. And then, having said that he turns
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  Speaker 1: to the garden. No matter how luxuriant the plant, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how strong the roots system, when it is pulled
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  Speaker 1: up verse eighteen, if he is removed from his place,
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  Speaker 1: then it will deny him saying I never saw you.
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  Speaker 1: The implication is that that is what has happened. God
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  Speaker 1: has uprooted you, Job, and or something has happened to
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  Speaker 1: your root system that has led to this deathlike condition
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  Speaker 1: in which you find yourself. Now you say, well, well
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty complicated. Well it's philosophy. Remember there are the
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  Speaker 1: people who talk about things they don't know what it's
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  Speaker 1: all about, and they make it sound like it's your fault.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the way it is with Bill Dad. He
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  Speaker 1: is meandering around all these philosophical thoughts, and Job is
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  Speaker 1: sitting there trying to put them together and think what
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  Speaker 1: is there that I can gain from this? And then
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  Speaker 1: he closes it off with verse twenty through twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: God will not reject a man of integrity. What's the implication,
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  Speaker 1: You're not? Nor will he support the evil doers. By
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  Speaker 1: now you're getting it, you've already seen where I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, your lives
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  Speaker 1: with shouting. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame.
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  Speaker 1: The tent of the wicked will be no more. You'll
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  Speaker 1: know a day when you'll pass off this earth, and
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  Speaker 1: all of life will be wonderfully restored for you. You'll know joy.
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  Speaker 1: He missed it by a mile. He certainly didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the point of what job needed. A friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: sent me an example of this this week that I
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  Speaker 1: think illustrates it. A man asked his wife, if you
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  Speaker 1: could have anything in the world for one day, what
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  Speaker 1: would you want? And she said, well, I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: be six again, she said, with a smile. Early the
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  Speaker 1: next morning, the morning of her birthday, he got her
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  Speaker 1: up and off they went to a local theme park.
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  Speaker 1: What a day. He put her on every ride in
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  Speaker 1: the park, the Death Slide, the Screaming Loop, the Wall
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  Speaker 1: of Fear, everything that was. Five hours later, she staggers
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  Speaker 1: out of the theme park. Her head's reeling, her stomach
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  Speaker 1: is upside down. Off to McDonald's. Next, he ordered her
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  Speaker 1: two big Macs, along with extra fries and a thick
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  Speaker 1: chocolate shake. And then it was to an animated movie,
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  Speaker 1: the latest Hollywood blockbuster. There were hot dogs and the
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  Speaker 1: popcorn and Pepsi's and M and m's a fabulous six
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  Speaker 1: year old adventure. Finally, she wobbled home with her husband
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  Speaker 1: and collapsed into bed, and he leaned over and lovingly asked, well, dear,
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  Speaker 1: how'd you like being six again? One eye opened, She said, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: I meant my dress size. You know, Bill, Dad misses
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  Speaker 1: it by a mile. He comes at Job as if
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  Speaker 1: Job needs sermons and condemnation and illustrations from the past
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  Speaker 1: and philosophical thought and examples from nature and spiders webs
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  Speaker 1: and roots around rocks and all of this, and Job
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  Speaker 1: just says, look, can you help solve the sores I've
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  Speaker 1: got all over my body? Or can't you just say
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  Speaker 1: you're here to be with me and to sit alongside
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  Speaker 1: as I try to survive. But I don't need to
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  Speaker 1: put words in Job's mouth. He can speak for himself.
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  Speaker 1: And he answered, now, remember last time we were together.
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  Speaker 1: Remember I told you about the cycles in Job. Get
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  Speaker 1: that clear in your mind. You'll be at odds with
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  Speaker 1: the book. It'll be a jumble of words and dialogue
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't tie together. It's no reason to view it
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  Speaker 1: like that. There are three cycles, three cycles, and in
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  Speaker 1: these cycles there are dialogues. The first cycle, there is
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  Speaker 1: first elephant, Job answers him, Bill Dad, Job answers him.
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  Speaker 1: So far, Job answers him. That finishes the first cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's a second cycle, which is exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: rhythm as the first. Same one speak, Job answers each one.
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  Speaker 1: The third cycle, everyone but so far speaks. Maybe he's
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  Speaker 1: walked away with his hands up, saying I can't get
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  Speaker 1: through to him. Job isn't very teachable. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: waste my wisdom on a man like that. And then
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  Speaker 1: there appears finally a younger man named Eli Hugh e
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  Speaker 1: l I h U Chapter thirty two, and he continues
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  Speaker 1: until finally God comes on the scene and they all
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  Speaker 1: get the evaluation. Sorry, counselors are every one of you,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great way to put it. And then
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  Speaker 1: the men are put in their place and they in
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  Speaker 1: fact job is to pray for them and they make
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  Speaker 1: things right. But we're not there yet. It's interesting, you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: there are people like this. There are people like this. Yeah,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: here it is one man which it this way. It
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: seems almost incredible that Bill Dad would reply so callously.
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  Speaker 1: There's not only indifference to Job's plight, but an arrogant
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  Speaker 1: certainty that Job's children got just what they deserved, and
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  Speaker 1: that Job was well on his way to the same fate.
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  Speaker 1: The lesson we must learn I get this is that
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  Speaker 1: there are such people in the world, and that they
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  Speaker 1: do their heartless disservice to mankind under the guise of
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  Speaker 1: being the special friend of God. Have you noticed that
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the harshest letters I've ever received have come from fellow
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Christians who sign it in Christian love, or they begin
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  Speaker 1: it with God told me to write you this, And
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  Speaker 1: I thought, when I read it, I wonder if he's
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  Speaker 1: baritone or base. And then they unload a peace of
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  Speaker 1: their mind they couldn't afford to lose. In this letter.
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  Speaker 1: La fast ventured a word, But I'm telling you Bill,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Dad was downright blunt. He opens with a blast. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to add here no extra charge. Think before
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  Speaker 1: you write a letter of criticism. Think. I believe it
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: was Franklin, Benjamin Franklin. I believe it was Franklin who said,
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  Speaker 1: write your complaints in dust, your affirmations in marble. Don't
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: record for posterity your complaints. Please, if you need to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: do that, then say them, say them face to face
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and say them kindly. Before you do that, put yourself
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: in the shoes of the other person for a considerable
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  Speaker 1: period of time. Chances are good you'll never say a word,
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  Speaker 1: or if you do, you'll say them with greater tact.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you things that I've had to learn
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  Speaker 1: the hard way. I've rarely felt sorry for things I
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  Speaker 1: did not say. I've often felt sorry for things I said,
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  Speaker 1: and almost without exception, felt badly that I wrote them.
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  Speaker 1: And I have no one in mind. If I did,
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  Speaker 1: i'd call your name, But I don't, because the wonderful
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  Speaker 1: thing about Stonebrier Community Church is that we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people at grouse about petty things. Thank
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the Lord, many a pastor I know right now lives
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  Speaker 1: under the gun of some blast from some Bill Dad
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  Speaker 1: in his life who just has taken him on as
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  Speaker 1: as he's in the crosshairs of his sight. I just
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: read one yesterday in a letter from a brother who
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the particular officer in the church is just making his
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  Speaker 1: life miserable. Now, why do we do that job? Answers?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: And his words are our shaped, hopefully to fit Bill
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  Speaker 1: Dad's brain, assuming there is one sizeable enough to get it.
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  Speaker 1: Job answered you idiot. No, no, no, he says, no,
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  Speaker 1: he says, he says, Actually, Bill Dad, I know all
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  Speaker 1: of this that you have told me, and that's not pride,
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  Speaker 1: it's a fact, Bill Dad, Bill Dad, listen, I know
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  Speaker 1: those things, Bill Dad. I've walked with God my adult life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in truth. I know so much of what you're
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  Speaker 1: telling me. But my question is, how can a man
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  Speaker 1: be in the right before God? Tell me that scratch
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  Speaker 1: the itche build it. You're missing the need a mile?
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  Speaker 1: How how can I be declared right before God? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I so want Job to scoot ahead by
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  Speaker 1: the centuries and meet the Savior. The only way you
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  Speaker 1: and I can know what it is to be right
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  Speaker 1: before God is to be in the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: and in the person of His son. We are as
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  Speaker 1: righteous as he. Job longs to know that kind of peace.
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  Speaker 1: You see how he viewsed God. Look at his response,
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  Speaker 1: He says, in effect, none of what you've told me
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  Speaker 1: helps my case. God is is huge. If one wished
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  Speaker 1: to dispute with him, he could not answer him once
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  Speaker 1: in a thousand times. Still, speaking of the Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: wise in heart and mighty in strength, who has defied
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  Speaker 1: him without harm, see the fear that there is in him.
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  Speaker 1: It is God who removes the mountains. They know not
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  Speaker 1: how when he overturns them in his anger. Who shakes
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  Speaker 1: the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: referring to clearly an earthquake or a volcano. Who commands
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  Speaker 1: the sun not to shine, and sets a seal on
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  Speaker 1: the stars. Who alone stretches out the heavens and tramples
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  Speaker 1: down the waves of the sea. Who makes the bear
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  Speaker 1: Ryan and pleiades the chambers of the South. He goes
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  Speaker 1: to the stellar spaces, and he alone does that. Who
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  Speaker 1: does great things, unfathomable, wondrous works without number. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: know a great God. Is what I need is an
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  Speaker 1: audience with him. Look at him. He is the one
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  Speaker 1: who does all of this about us, and he is enormous,
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  Speaker 1: and I fear him. I stand before him in awe
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  Speaker 1: and wonder all I all I want is to be
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  Speaker 1: able to approach him and talk this out. And you
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  Speaker 1: haven't helped me do that, Bill, Dad, Now with that,
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  Speaker 1: there are four lines of questions that are that that
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  Speaker 1: follow uh and and keep in mind, job hasn't in
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  Speaker 1: the back of his mind, we're going to see a
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  Speaker 1: court room. He would love to be able, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: to step into a divine courtroom and to speak to
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  Speaker 1: the judge, the Lord God. He would love to walk
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  Speaker 1: just as he is, covered with these sores and the
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  Speaker 1: sadness of his life and the bankruptcy of his condition,
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  Speaker 1: and just stand before the judge and argue his case,
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  Speaker 1: not to be impudent, but to be on a level
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  Speaker 1: where they could talk this through. He knows that his
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  Speaker 1: God would have answers for him. So these four lines
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  Speaker 1: of questions are number one. If I could stand before God,
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  Speaker 1: what would I say? Verses fourteen to nineteen See verse fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: How then can I answer him? And choose my words
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  Speaker 1: before him? If I could stand before God, what would
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  Speaker 1: I say? Though I were right, I could not answer.
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  Speaker 1: I would have to implore the mercy of my judge.
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  Speaker 1: If I called and he answered me, I could not
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  Speaker 1: believe that he was listening to my voice. For he
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  Speaker 1: bruises me with a tempt and multiplies my wounds without cause.
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  Speaker 1: He will not allow me to get my breath, but
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  Speaker 1: saturates me with bitterness. It is a matter of power. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: he is the strong one. If it is a matter
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  Speaker 1: of power. He wins. So if I could stand before him,
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  Speaker 1: what would I say? Here's the second question. If I
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  Speaker 1: could declare my own innocence, what good would it do?
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  Speaker 1: That's twenty three twenty four. If I could declare my innocence,
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  Speaker 1: what good would it do? Though I am righteous? Verse twenty,
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  Speaker 1: my mouth will condemn me, though I am guiltless, he
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  Speaker 1: will declare me guilty. I am guiltless. I do not
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  Speaker 1: take notice of myself. I despise my life. It is
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  Speaker 1: all one. Therefore, I say, he destroys the guiltless and
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  Speaker 1: the wicked. If the scourge kills suddenly, he mocks the
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  Speaker 1: despair of the innocent. The earth is given into the
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  Speaker 1: hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges.
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  Speaker 1: Remember this is Hebrew poetry. Leave some of it, let
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  Speaker 1: it settle. It would be valuable to turn it over
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  Speaker 1: in our minds for another hour, to plumb the depths
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  Speaker 1: of such writings as this. But the point is if
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  Speaker 1: I could declare my own innocence, or what good would
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  Speaker 1: it do? And then twenty five through thirty one, if
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  Speaker 1: I tried to be positive and cheerful, how would that help?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five to thirty one. If I tried to be
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  Speaker 1: positive and cheerful, how would that help? Look down in
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty seven, though I say I will forget my complaint,
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  Speaker 1: I will leave all my sad countenance and be cheerful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid of all my pains. I know that you
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  Speaker 1: will not acquit me. I am accounted wicked. Why then
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  Speaker 1: should I toil in vain? It won't work? And now
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  Speaker 1: the real question, the underlying question. If I only had
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  Speaker 1: a mediator, I could have my needs represented. I could
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  Speaker 1: have the truth told thirty two to thirty five. Now
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  Speaker 1: look closely, you'll love this. For he referring to God.
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  Speaker 1: He is not a man as I am, that I
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  Speaker 1: may answer him, that we may go to court together.
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  Speaker 1: There is no umpire between us, who may lay his
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  Speaker 1: hand upon us. Both. The point is, if I had
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  Speaker 1: a mediator, I could find a go between so that
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  Speaker 1: I could communicate with this mighty and wise and holy God.
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  Speaker 1: But there is note see the word umpire. He's calling
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  Speaker 1: for a mediator, one who could argue his case. Job
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  Speaker 1: wished to present his case in God's court, but he
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: can't find a mediator. Hold your place and look at
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  Speaker 1: thirteen three job thirteen three. I would speak to the Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: and I desire to argue with God. That means to
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  Speaker 1: bring his case before him and plead it. Look at
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  Speaker 1: verse fifteen of that same chapter thirteen fifteen. Though he
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  Speaker 1: slay me, I will hope in him. Nevertheless, I will
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  Speaker 1: argue my ways before him verse eighteen. Behold, now I
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  Speaker 1: have prepared my case. I know that I will be vindicated.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought through what my case would be, and I
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  Speaker 1: would love to come and stand before this holy judge,
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  Speaker 1: this God of mine. But I can't do it because
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  Speaker 1: he's not a man to come to me. And I
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  Speaker 1: am not I missed this earlier the end of verse
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  Speaker 1: thirty five, chapter nine. I am not like that in myself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have what it takes to come before him.
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  Speaker 1: I need a go between. I need an arbitrator. I
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  Speaker 1: need a mediator. Years ago, when I worked as a machinist,
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  Speaker 1: working my way through school, there was the threat of
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  Speaker 1: a strike, and the union stood on one side with
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  Speaker 1: the laborers, and management stood on the other side, and
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: there was a great gap in between. Interestingly, an arbitrator
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  Speaker 1: was hired to come in. He had nothing to gain
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of the union. He had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: gain in the eyes of the management. He was supposedly
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  Speaker 1: completely neutral, and he came and worked long and hard
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  Speaker 1: to hear both sides as both presented their causes, and
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  Speaker 1: then he passed a decision, and the paper had been
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  Speaker 1: signed that if the arbitrator could bring the two together,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the issue would be solved and there would be no strike.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: In fact, he did, and there was no strike. But
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting to watch the process occur because this
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  Speaker 1: man became the representative of both sides, and yet not
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  Speaker 1: gaining from the argument or losing because of the argument,
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  Speaker 1: he was able to judge, in the midst of the argument,
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  Speaker 1: the best decision, and it was fair and it was right,
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  Speaker 1: and it solved. He put his hand on one, he
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  Speaker 1: put his hand on the other, as it was, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, and he stood between the two and he
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: solved the issue. That's what Job wants. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have one. He doesn't qualify to stand before God. He
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: isn't God, or he isn't Deity, and God is not
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: a man that he can come stand before him. So
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: he's stuck. You see why I said, would that Job
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  Speaker 1: had lived a few centuries later, let me show you
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: why look at First Timothy two. Oh, there is a
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  Speaker 1: new Testament, First Timothy two. First Timothy two, Verse three.
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  Speaker 1: Paul writes to his younger Timothy, explaining, here the go
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  Speaker 1: between the mediator one Timothy two three, not tewod Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: it's First Timothy two three. This is good and acceptable
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  Speaker 1: in the sight of God, our Savior, who desires all
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  Speaker 1: men to be saved and to come to the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator,
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  Speaker 1: one go between one arbitrator an umpire. There is one God.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget that in this in this era of many gods.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you tell one another that all the gods are
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  Speaker 1: the same. Don't you believe that lie. There is one God,
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  Speaker 1: the Creator God. It is not Allah. It is the
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  Speaker 1: living God of the scriptures. There is one God, and
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  Speaker 1: there is one mediator between this God of the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: who has made us and all things pertaining to us
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  Speaker 1: and humanity on this earth. And he is identified. There
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  Speaker 1: is one mediator, the Man Christ Jesus. There are not many.
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  Speaker 1: The way is narrow. Don't believe the lie. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: afraid to be that specific. And I hear people struggle
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: with specificity. When I hear people struggle with that, I
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: think we are. Do you want people to specific about
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the flights you take? You ever call up and they'll say, well,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: it's flight four thirteen, or it actually might be ten
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  Speaker 1: ninety six, or really it could be three or nine.
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  Speaker 1: You said, no, no, I want to know which flight
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  Speaker 1: is it? Well? And also it takes off from DFW
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  Speaker 1: actually could be love Field and flight departs at twelve
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  Speaker 1: fourteen thereabouts, maybe one ten or two thirty. You go,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, get specific. Isn't that amazing? Something as
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  Speaker 1: simple as a flight. We want exact numbers and times
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  Speaker 1: and gates. You don't want to walk all over the
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  Speaker 1: airport going, oh, let's see, I'm open minded. I'll take
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I'll take whatever flies, just so the pilot is sincere
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: and then and it looks good, it seems right. It
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: just it's just like I need to feel it deeply
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  Speaker 1: when I get on the planet. What a croc. There
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  Speaker 1: is one God. There is one mediator between God and men,
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  Speaker 1: and it is the man Christ Jesus. That is truth
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  Speaker 1: men and women in a in a pluralistic world, you
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  Speaker 1: will not hear that, And by saying that, you will
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: be called intolerant, which is one of the great compliments
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: you will ever hear from from the liberal to be
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: called narrow. Jesus said it, I am the Way, the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: the life. No man comes to the Father but through Me,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: not us, not several one God, one mediator, the man
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the testimony given at the proper time. Oh, Joe, there
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: is a mediator. You just haven't met him. But someday, someday, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: you'll hear of this job. Therefore, back to job nine.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you hate to go back? I just don't want
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: to stay in Timothy because it's so helpful there. Campbell
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Morgan writes, the cry of job was born of a
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: double consciousness which at the moment was mastering him, first
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: that of the appalling greatness and majesty of God, and
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: secondly that of his own comparative littleness. It was the
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: cry of a man who knew God and was overwhelmed
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: by the sense of his greatness. Over Against this was
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: the sense of his own comparative smallness. Track this is
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: great writing. He felt he could not get to God,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: he was altogether too small. It is as though Job
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: had said, there is no umpire, there is no arbiter,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: There is no one who can stand between us interpreting
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: each to the other, Me to God, God to me.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: There is no one to lay his hand upon us.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Job is crying out for someone who could stand authoritatively
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  Speaker 1: between God and himself and so create a way of meeting,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: a possibility of contact. We now turn from the elemental
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: cry of Job from the Old Testament to consider the
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: apostolic word concerning Jesus. There is one mediator between God
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and man. That is the Gospel in brief, that is
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Christianity fundamentally by faith alone, in Christ alone, and there
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: is no other There is no other way. Job says,
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  Speaker 1: because he doesn't have that umpire verse one of chapter ten,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I loathe my own life. It's like he would. Ah,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: He just gasps. I loathe the fact that I haven't
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: a way to stand before the judge on that great
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: divine throne. So I plead verse two, do not condemn me.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Let me know why you contend with me. Is it
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: right for you, indeed to oppress me? He has every
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  Speaker 1: right to ask that he's confused. He doesn't get it.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a mediator to say, job, let me
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: explain what's happening to you and to the living God
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: to represent your case. That's why I'm here. I love
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: toward the end of this chapter, and I need to
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: race through this verse eighteen. Why then, have you brought
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: me out of the womb? He's back to that same
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: old song he was in in chapter three? Why did
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: you let me be born alive? Would that I had
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: died and know I had seen me? Would that I
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: had died in the womb, and never having been seen
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I should have been as though I had not been
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: carried from womb to tomb. Why isn't that a great
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: way to put it? You know that was in the Bible.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: When I first read that several years ago, I thought,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: what a perfect slogan for a and it's ministry from
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: womb to tomb. We minister from womb to tomb. Boy.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Then I looked at the context and I thought, yikes,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. That's not a It's
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: like you're sometimes see in a graveyard, etched on tombstones,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of
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  Speaker 1: the hands to rest, and it'll say proverbs or it'll
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