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

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  Speaker 1: You and I, more often than not, will be hopefully
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  Speaker 1: the caring friend, the sensitive friend. It's important to remain
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  Speaker 1: caring and sensitive, to know when to come, to know
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  Speaker 1: how long to stay silent, and if to speak at all,
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  Speaker 1: to know what to say.
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  Speaker 2: Some things you can't learn until you've lived them. Endurance
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  Speaker 2: is one of them. Job didn't choose his suffering, but
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in the middle of it, he learned to keep walking,
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  Speaker 2: not with clenched teeth, not with a fake smile, just
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  Speaker 2: a long obedience in the same direction. Today on Insight
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  Speaker 2: for Living, Chuck Swindoll points us to the profound lessons
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  Speaker 2: Job teaches us about ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: About what it.
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  Speaker 2: Means to stop running from the very things we need
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  Speaker 2: to face and to grow stronger in our faith. Chuck
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  Speaker 2: titled his message, What Job Teaches Us About Ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We never know ahead of time the plans God has
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  Speaker 1: for us. Job had no way of knowing this. That
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  Speaker 1: morning dawned like every other morning. The night had passed
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  Speaker 1: like most every other night. There was no early morning skywriting.
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  Speaker 1: There was no angelic visit. There was no tap at
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  Speaker 1: the window warning him that something would change or.
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  Speaker 3: That all hell would break loose or the bottom would
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  Speaker 3: drop out of his life.
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  Speaker 1: He got up that morning like every other morning. It's
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  Speaker 1: impossible to explain it fully. No one can explain it.
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  Speaker 1: I remind you these are principles... to live with and
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  Speaker 1: to remember. Job's response, verse 20, is absolutely remarkable. Job
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  Speaker 1: arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and
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  Speaker 1: fell to the ground.
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  Speaker 3: And worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: He said, naked I came from my mother's womb and
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  Speaker 1: naked I will return.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord gave. The Lord has taken away. Blessed be
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  Speaker 3: the name of the Lord through all this.
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  Speaker 1: We read Job did not sin, nor did he blame God.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson number two. A vertical perspective will keep us from
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  Speaker 1: horizontal panic. A vertical perspective will keep us from horizontal panic.
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  Speaker 3: Don't misunderstand.
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  Speaker 1: Job Job doesn't escape into denial. He faces the music,
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  Speaker 1: somber and.
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  Speaker 3: Sad that it is.
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  Speaker 1: He's overwhelmed. That's why he tore his robe. He's broken
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  Speaker 1: and saddened and bankrupt. That's why he shaves his head
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  Speaker 1: and sits in ashes. He refuses to escape emotionally through denial.
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  Speaker 1: He falls to the ground and worships. What a remarkable thing.
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  Speaker 3: Response.
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  Speaker 1: Job does not sin or blame God, which frustrates Satan,
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  Speaker 1: and does not surprise our God, who already knew Job
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  Speaker 1: would be a man of integrity. So there was another day,
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  Speaker 1: round two, and Satan comes out swinging. Skin for skin,
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  Speaker 1: chapter 2, verse 4, all that a man has, he
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  Speaker 1: will give for his life. Put forth your hand now
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  Speaker 1: and touch his bone and his flesh. He'll curse you
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  Speaker 1: to your face. He repeats the charge, the warning. So
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said, he's in your power. Only spare his life.
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  Speaker 1: Satan went out and smote him with boils from the
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  Speaker 1: sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
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  Speaker 3: You've been sick lately? I mean really sick. Fever wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: go away. Hospitalized.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't find the cause. Some exotic germ that has
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  Speaker 1: leveled you. It affects your job. You don't have disability
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  Speaker 1: and you can no longer work. That's where he finds himself.
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  Speaker 3: It's horrible.
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  Speaker 1: He took a potsherd to scrape himself. The itching was
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  Speaker 1: maddening as he sat among the ashes. Verse 9, his wife.
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  Speaker 1: said to him, look closely. Do you still hold fast
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  Speaker 1: your integrity, Joe?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, sweetheart. It's enough. Just curse God.
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  Speaker 1: Die.
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  Speaker 3: You know what? She loved him. Never doubted. The sickness
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  Speaker 3: hasn't made her love the less.
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  Speaker 1: Her compassion kicks in, and she just thinks if we
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  Speaker 1: could just pull the plug. You curse him and he'll
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  Speaker 1: take you. You and I both know this will end
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  Speaker 1: the suffering. Until you're there, don't.
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  Speaker 3: Judge his wife, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Until you're there. She's lost everything too. She too has
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  Speaker 1: visited the grave sites of ten.
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  Speaker 3: Precious lives.
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  Speaker 1: But he said to her, Verse 10, you speak as
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  Speaker 1: one of the foolish women speak. Shall we indeed accept
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  Speaker 1: good from God and not accept adversity? In all this,
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  Speaker 1: Job did not sin with his lips. Lesson number three.
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  Speaker 1: Great discernment is needed to detect wrong advice from well-meaning people.
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  Speaker 1: Great discernment is needed to detect wrong advice from well-meaning people.
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  Speaker 3: That's his wife. Job knew better. As much as he
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  Speaker 3: loved her, he couldn't follow her advice. Not this time.
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  Speaker 3: Which brings us to his response.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 10, he said to her, you speak as one
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  Speaker 1: of the foolish women speaks. Must have been hard for
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  Speaker 1: him to say to someone he loved like he loved her.
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  Speaker 1: But it needed to be said. Shall we indeed accept
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  Speaker 1: good from God and not accept adversity? What great theology.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson number four. When things turn from bad to worse,
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  Speaker 1: sound theology helps us remain.
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  Speaker 3: Strong and stable.
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  Speaker 1: When things turn from bad to worse, sound theology helps
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  Speaker 1: us remain strong and stable. It's amazing, frankly, that Job,
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  Speaker 1: after suffering such a barrage of cataclysmic events, would be
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  Speaker 1: thinking so clearly, so correctly, without wavering.
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  Speaker 3: No uncertainty. How could he do it?
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  Speaker 1: He was so grounded in his knowledge of God. Sound theology.
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  Speaker 3: So valuable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the friends show up. You may recall verse 11.
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  Speaker 1: Three friends heard of all this adversity that had come
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  Speaker 1: upon him, and they came each one from his own place.
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  Speaker 1: They made an appointment together to come to sympathize with
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  Speaker 1: him and comfort him. And when they lifted up their
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  Speaker 1: eyes at a distance, they did not recognize him.
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  Speaker 3: They raised their voices and wept.
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  Speaker 1: And each of them tore his robe and threw dust
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  Speaker 1: over their heads toward the sky. And they sat down
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  Speaker 1: on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights,
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  Speaker 1: with no one speaking a word to him, for they
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  Speaker 1: saw his pain was very great.
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  Speaker 3: Fifth lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Caring and sensitive friends know when to come, how to
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  Speaker 1: stay quiet, and what to say Caring and sensitive friends
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  Speaker 1: know when to come, how to stay quiet, and what
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  Speaker 1: to say. You might add in parenthesis, if anything at all.
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  Speaker 3: I so wish.
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  Speaker 1: That Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar had simply stayed silent.
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  Speaker 1: Been there to fetch some water, bring a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of soup or broth just to be near You know,
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  Speaker 1: these men qualified on the first two.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't they?
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  Speaker 1: They came to Job, they left their homes and the
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  Speaker 1: comfort of home, and they traveled however far, we're not told.
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  Speaker 1: And when they got there, for seven days, did the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. They simply sat with him. But when it
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  Speaker 1: got to the third one, they didn't know to stay quiet.
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  Speaker 1: They felt like it's time to.
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  Speaker 3: Set the record straight, and so they rebuke him. The
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  Speaker 3: question is motive.
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  Speaker 1: They even probe for hidden secret sins that brought this about. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we've looked earlier at what it is like to be
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  Speaker 1: a sufferer. Now we're looking at what it is like
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  Speaker 1: to minister to the suffering. You and I, more often
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  Speaker 1: than not, will be hopefully the caring friend, the sensitive friend.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone who is hurting needs a friend. Needs a friend
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  Speaker 1: outside the family. Not too many, but some. Some friends.
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  Speaker 1: It's the message of some friends to simply bring comfort
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  Speaker 1: and sympathy. It's the message of other friends at the
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  Speaker 1: appropriate moment in time to bring confrontation and reproof.
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  Speaker 3: David comes to mind.
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  Speaker 1: Early on, after being anointed as the future king, David
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  Speaker 1: is now hunted and haunted by King Saul out.
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  Speaker 3: Of jealousy and envy. Saul's son, Jonathan.
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  Speaker 1: Hears these comments his father makes and knows that they
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  Speaker 1: are misplaced and incorrect and unfair. And so Jonathan takes
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  Speaker 1: up the cause of David and becomes for David a friend.
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  Speaker 1: He even seeks him out and finds places for him
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  Speaker 1: to hide and reveals to him words that offer.
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  Speaker 3: Hope and encouragement. That's the role of Jonathan.
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  Speaker 1: Time passes, Saul dies, David becomes king again. And after years,
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  Speaker 1: plunges into the horror of adultery mixed with murder and
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  Speaker 1: then hypocrisy and lack of leadership. And along comes not Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: who's dead by now, but a Nathan, who is equally
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  Speaker 1: a committed friend, sensitive and caring. And Nathan comes to
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  Speaker 1: reprove his friend and to remind him, you are the man.
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  Speaker 1: And it turns David's attention, catches his attention, turns his
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  Speaker 1: thoughts back in repentance to God. Everyone needs a Jonathan.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone needs a Nathan. Whatever role you play, it's important
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  Speaker 1: to remain caring and sensitive. To know when to come.
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  Speaker 1: To know how long to stay silent. and if to
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  Speaker 1: speak at all, to know what to say. Well, Job
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  Speaker 1: finally lets it all out, doesn't he? Three, one, opened
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  Speaker 1: his mouth and cursed the day he was born. Job
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  Speaker 1: even says, let the day perish when on which I
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  Speaker 1: was to be born and the night which said, a
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  Speaker 1: boy is conceived, He curses the day of his birth.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 11. Why did I not die from birth, come
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  Speaker 1: forth from the womb, and expire? Verse 25. What I
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  Speaker 1: fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
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  Speaker 1: I am not at ease, nor am I quiet. I
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  Speaker 1: am not at rest, but turmoil comes. You know what
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  Speaker 1: this is?
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  Speaker 3: Listen to me. This chapter.
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  Speaker 1: provides us with words of a suffering, broken man.
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  Speaker 3: He is at wit's end.
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  Speaker 1: The suffering doesn't end. The kids are still dead. The
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  Speaker 1: body's still covered with boils. There's not enough money to
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  Speaker 1: provide for what's needed. His surroundings are atrocious. The wild
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  Speaker 1: dogs feed on the garbage all around him. His wife
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  Speaker 1: is there, disillusioned, heartbroken.
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  Speaker 3: That's enough!
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  Speaker 1: And he curses the day he's born. He despises the
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  Speaker 1: thought that he lived. And he's not resting and he
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  Speaker 1: is in dread. And he must have said at that
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  Speaker 1: moment at the end of chapter 3 with his head
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  Speaker 1: in his hands. Let me give you the sixth lesson
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  Speaker 1: from a bit of a diagonal viewpoint here. It's easy
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  Speaker 1: to be Monday morning quarterbacks. when we encounter another's suffering.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to be Monday morning quarterbacks when we encounter
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  Speaker 1: another's suffering. I mean, it's hard to read statements like this.
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  Speaker 1: I wish chapter 3 weren't.
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  Speaker 3: In the book. I really do. I have to catch
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  Speaker 3: myself from saying, Job, don't say that. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: regret it.
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  Speaker 1: But he needs space to say it. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterback hears it and says, I would never
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  Speaker 1: react like that. I would never say such a thing
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  Speaker 1: of our God. This is how I would respond. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how could she call herself a Christian and act like that?
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  Speaker 1: What he's saying about himself or his God. Why, if
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  Speaker 1: I were the Lord, I'd discipline him for that. Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning quarterback talk. We don't wait till Monday. We do
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  Speaker 1: it Sunday afternoons.
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  Speaker 3: Don't throw that pass, you idiot. They've covered the end.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to get intercepted.
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  Speaker 3: When are you going to get a life? And most
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  Speaker 3: of us have never been a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And we've never had three 374-pound linemen with blood in
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  Speaker 1: their eyes, six feet nine, coming toward us, grinning.
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  Speaker 3: And we say, don't throw that thing, you dodo. Don't
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  Speaker 3: throw it. If I were there, I wouldn't have thrown it.
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  Speaker 3: I'd take a hit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Leave it in the book. Leave it in the book.
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  Speaker 1: Don't try to take it out. We all have our
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  Speaker 1: Job chapter threes. We all have said things. We've all
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  Speaker 1: done things. We've all responded in the wrong way. We've
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  Speaker 1: all run off at the mouth. We've all thrown interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: And we don't need someone to tell us what we
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  Speaker 1: already know. We may even think at the time we're
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  Speaker 1: doing it, I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: To regret this. But we do it.
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  Speaker 1: You'll need this lesson. You'll need this principle. Especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're a spiritual leader. You teach the Bible study or
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  Speaker 1: you're a on the staff of a church, or you're
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  Speaker 1: a pastor, you're a counselor, the world's full of I
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  Speaker 1: told you so's or shouldn't, you ought not.
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  Speaker 3: Just be quiet. Let it be.
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  Speaker 1: Eliphaz lands on him with both feet. Fists are swinging.
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  Speaker 1: Round one, round two, round three, punching at Job. And
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  Speaker 1: Eliphaz has never gone through what Job is going through. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the last one is over in chapter 42. Doesn't that
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  Speaker 1: have a nice ring to it? Chapter 42. Chapter 42,
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  Speaker 1: Job repents. How beautiful it is in verse 6. I
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  Speaker 1: retract what I said and I repent. What a great man.
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  Speaker 1: He suffered through all of this for who knows how long.
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  Speaker 1: No one seems to know. Some say, Weeks, some say months.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any idea. I don't know how to guess.
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  Speaker 1: It's taken us months to get through it, so I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine how long it took him to live it.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, finally, he endures, he endures, and the Lord
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  Speaker 1: four times calls him the same thing. Verse 7, it
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  Speaker 1: came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job.
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  Speaker 1: He said to Eliphaz, my wrath is kindled against you
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  Speaker 1: and against You're two friends because you have not spoken
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  Speaker 1: of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
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  Speaker 3: There's no repentance I hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: There's no retraction I hear from you. He says again
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  Speaker 1: three times in chapter 42, verse 8, my servant Job,
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  Speaker 1: my servant Job, my servant Job has spoken what is right.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 9 concludes the Lord accepted Job. James 5.11 says
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  Speaker 1: we remember the endurance of Job.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the principle.
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  Speaker 1: The cultivation of obedient endurance is the crowning mark of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: The cultivation of obedient endurance is the crowning mark of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know of a wholesome, healthy Christian who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: long to reach maturity. If you ask me in any
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  Speaker 1: unguarded moment, I will tell you my.
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  Speaker 3: Great goal in life is to be grown up in
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  Speaker 3: my walk.
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  Speaker 1: I would love it if the stone simply reads, here
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  Speaker 1: lies a man who finally became mature.
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  Speaker 3: You know what that tells me? That tells all of
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  Speaker 3: us it's a slow, arduous process. And Job. reached it,
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  Speaker 3: reached the goal.
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  Speaker 1: David Roper, in his work on James, which he titles
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  Speaker 1: Growing Slowly Wise, writes this.
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  Speaker 3: When trouble comes, we have two options.
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  Speaker 1: We can view it as an intrusion, an outrage, or
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  Speaker 1: we can see it as an opportunity to respond to
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  Speaker 1: it in specific obedience to God's will. This is that
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  Speaker 1: rugged virtue James calls endurance. Endurance is not tooth-clenched resignation,
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  Speaker 1: nor is it passive acquiescence.
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  Speaker 3: It is a long obedience in the same direction. Where
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  Speaker 3: are you today? Where are you in your journey? Hard place?
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  Speaker 3: Severe trial? Maybe back to back?
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  Speaker 1: I plead with you not to discard the list of
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  Speaker 1: seven lessons. I would ask you sometime even this afternoon
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  Speaker 1: to go back and read them aloud, to insert them
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  Speaker 1: in your journal, Think through your current situation and apply
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  Speaker 1: whichever ones are appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: Go there. It could make all the difference in your
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  Speaker 3: growing up rather than simply growing older in your faith.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like you to bow your heads with me, please.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like you to close your eyes. Wherever you are
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  Speaker 1: in your journey, God has allowed you to hear this today.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it has not been easy. None of it
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  Speaker 1: has come easily to me in preparing it, I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you. I really worked on this message. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to say it just right so that there would not
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  Speaker 1: be anything that would cause a snag.
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  Speaker 3: To keep you from coming here. privately and personally.
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  Speaker 1: This is not counsel you'll find in tomorrow morning's newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: You'll not hear about it in a film you see
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  Speaker 1: or a magazine you read. This is fresh food from
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God. This is what will hold us
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  Speaker 1: together when everything explodes. And let me say for you
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  Speaker 1: who've never met the Lord Jesus Christ, he is not
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  Speaker 1: only available to you, he is ready to hear your
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  Speaker 1: prayer of acceptance. Lord, I'm a long distance from you.
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  Speaker 1: My life hasn't been what it should have been. And
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  Speaker 1: I come just like I am.
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  Speaker 3: And I... come to your son, Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I accept the fact that he died on my behalf
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  Speaker 1: and paid the full penalty for my sin. Acknowledging that
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  Speaker 1: I believe he has been raised from the dead, I
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  Speaker 1: trust him for now and through eternity. And he will
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  Speaker 1: not turn you away. Our ministry has been trained to
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  Speaker 1: talk with any of you who wrestle with whatever, some struggle,
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  Speaker 1: the need for salvation, a walk with God, dealing with
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  Speaker 1: some particular issue, I.
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  Speaker 3: Invite you to come today.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, we love you. Lord, we thank you. Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: worship you. Lord, we submit to you. And we confess
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  Speaker 1: to you the stubbornness of our own wills. And all
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  Speaker 1: of the energy that we have burnt up, running away
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  Speaker 1: from the very things that we needed to face. Deepen
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  Speaker 1: our relationship, Lord, so that you and we are closer.
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  Speaker 1: And you become the focus of our full attention and
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  Speaker 1: our absolute affection.
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  Speaker 3: Break us to the point of full surrender. And then
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  Speaker 3: use us as you have used Job through the.
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  Speaker 4: Centuries as a model of endurance. I pray these things
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  Speaker 4: through Christ our Lord. And everyone said, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Endurance isn't grim. It's not something you suffer through with
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  Speaker 2: your teeth clenched just hanging on. Chuck Swindoll called it
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  Speaker 2: something better today, a long obedience in the same direction.
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  Speaker 2: That's the crowning mark of maturity. You're listening to Insight
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  Speaker 2: for Living. Chuck is winding down his 22-part series on
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  Speaker 2: the life of Job that concludes this coming Tuesday. We
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  Speaker 2: urge you to keep listening as he reinforces the timeless
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  Speaker 2: wisdom that emerges from Job's suffering. Here at Insight for Living,
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  Speaker 2: we understand you come to this daily program with complicated
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  Speaker 2: problems that may seem impossible to solve. Wherever you are
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  Speaker 2: on that journey, take heart. God isn't finished with you yet.
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  Speaker 2: offer a once-in-a-lifetime book written by our teacher. I'm referring
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  Speaker 2: to Chuck Swindoll's personal memoir called Awakened by Grace. The
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  Speaker 2: often heard he was a mistake. Did you know that
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  Speaker 2: Chuck began stuttering in the seventh grade? But even while
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  Speaker 2: stumbling through his young adulthood, God was working out his purposes.
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  Speaker 2: In Awakened by Grace, Chuck shares for the very first
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  Speaker 2: boy into a man who delights in speaking grace and
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  Speaker 2: you ever find yourself asking, why me? Chuck Swindoll contends
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  Speaker 2: that Job's story provides the answer. Join us on Friday
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