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Episode 322- Rick and Elaine Discuss the Book of Job- Episode 24 · The Burros of Berea Podcast

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  Welcome back to Rick and Elaine discuss the Bible
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  in particular, the book of Joe. Good afternoon,
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  Elaine Ray Clark. How are you? I'm fine. Thank
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  you very much. Mr. Welsh in sunny. Well, it's
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  not very early. Is it sunny today in California?
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  No, California. You're in North Carolina, aren't
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  you? I'm in North Carolina. Yeah, it is not sunny
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  yet. The sun's not up, but that's good. My wife
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  took it upon herself to paint our deck while
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  I was gone to Atlanta. And so she wanted to get
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  up. Early and so she got up early before the
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  Sun got out. She's already out there painting.
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  She's outside painting the deck It looks phenomenal.
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  It's called tuxedo It's basically the whole all
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  of the the like the pickets and the railings
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  and everything are black And then the floor is
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  like this really nice gray and it's very cool
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  on the feet It's hot It's wood, isn't it? It's
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  a wooden deck, yeah. But it looks really beautiful.
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  I immediately noticed it when I drove from the
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  road. My wife, when she is off in the summer,
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  she makes a list of projects that she likes to
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  try to get done. She never gets them all, but
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  she likes to make a list and she just gets to
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  work and she makes the house look nice and she
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  just loves to be outside and she loves to make
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  the house look pretty. Well, I tell you what,
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  what a woman. She can come and do mine if she
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  wants. You know what? I'm glad that she does
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  it. Now, I am not that guy. Like, and I know
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  some people, you know, are. uh i'm not i've never
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  been i have horrible horrible allergies if i
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  get outside it doesn't take long i'm a big whiny
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  baby if i start having allergies i will act like
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  i'm dying so i'm a big baby i'm just a big baby
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  but yeah i get a lot of allergies though smells
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  are very bad for me i get headaches sinuses yeah
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  Now that doesn't mean that i don't work i work
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  really really really hard but i'm inside an industrial
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  shop with the doors closed breathing all kinds
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  of chemicals that are gonna kill me but that's
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  that's what i do you put me outside and it feels
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  like death like it's hard for me to breathe but
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  i get i take zyrtec and it helps but whatever
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  more chemicals more more yeah just more chemicals
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  anyway i'm back from blade show if you see my
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  eyes are very i'm very tired i'm very very tired
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  but i told elaine i got some good comments i've
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  got some side messages about our job study people
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  are uh excited to start watching this on tuesday
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  which i'm so thankful for absolutely so am i
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  i mean it'd be nice to hear some of the um comments
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  I'm going to read them to you. Here's one from
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  Cherry. We haven't heard from her in a while.
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  I actually had a long conversation. Yeah, I had.
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  Reminds me of that film, Big Mama's House. She's
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  Cherry, but it's Cherry. Yeah. I think of Cherry
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  Valance from The Outsiders. Oh, well, I don't
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  know. You don't you don't know that. It's a S
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  .E. Hinton book. Anyway, so Cherry, I actually
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  had a long conversation over the phone with her
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  last night. Cherry and I are really good friends,
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  but this is what she said. And Cherry was on
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  the Berzabria and occasionally will come back
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  on and do a study with me. She says, good morning.
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  I was so excited this morning to get to hear
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  the continuation of this study. Excellent. I
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  feel like listening to this study is like a cow
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  chewing cud. Oh, that's very nice because they
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  keep regurgitating and having another shoot.
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  That's what I thought. I was like, it makes me.
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  Cherry, when I read that, I thought, oh, so our
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  study makes you throw up in your own mouth. I
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  was going to say, yeah, but there's even more
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  sickly you chew it and swallow it again. And
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  then do it again. So she says, I am loving it
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  and look forward to listening to the whole study
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  on repeat. So what she means is like she loves
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  to chew on it and go back and forth. And I get
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  it. I got that in the beginning, Rick. I know
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  you did. I might look gormless, but I'm not.
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  Oh, I didn't. I mean, you're like, oh, our study
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  makes you puke in your mouth. Like, cool. All
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  right. So she said, I know I have said it before.
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  that it's a study that's worth listening to for
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  a lifetime and I still will say it again. One
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  thing that caught me this morning was staying
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  the course. That cut me good because I know me,
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  but praise God, he knows me too. Well, and he
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  knows you better than you do. That's right. Much
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  love and thanks to y 'all for remaining dedicated
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  to providing this study as well as so many more
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  worth chewing cud. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad we can
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  make you throw up in your own mouth and chew
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  it. It's a bit like, you know, Peter says the
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  dogs return to its own vomit and having a good
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  old chew up. I mean, you know, I think that meant
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  something a bit different, though, from chewing
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  it and having a go. Yeah. She's got a wonderful
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  way of complimenting somebody. You know what?
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  It's a good metaphor. It makes me vomit in my
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  own mouth. And then I chew on it all day. And
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  then I do it. I swallow. I do it again. That's
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  how good this study is for a cow. That is how
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  it gets it sort of nourishment. That's right.
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  It's a good thing for a cow. I said so. So we're
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  a couple of old heifers. Right. That's what she
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  meant. We're a bunch of heifers. We're a bunch
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  of heifers. All right. Here's the next one. There
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  was only two from this. All right. Tony Driver.
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  Hi, Tony. Hi, Tony. Great study today, Rick and
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  Elaine. I really enjoyed this one and I'm very
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  intrigued by the study you are planning to do
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  next. That's today. I'm glad you're excited.
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  I also saw the Jonah part in the story as well
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  how God Uses suffering pressure and even being
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  brought low to turn his people back to himself
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  that connection Connection really stood out to
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  me This job study keeps opening up more and more
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  layers and I'm thankful to be walking through
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  it with y 'all until next week Have a fantastic
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  week hugs to my friends and Bible study family
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  hugs to you, too By the way, she's written even
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  more songs. If you guys go to Tony driver 15,
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  18, I think it is on YouTube and look at her
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  channel. She's got a playlist that says Job Studies.
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  I think there's like 40 in there. I mean, or
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  more. She's she's right. Every time we do a study,
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  she writes another song. Oh, how wonderful. It's
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  really good because she captures what we're you
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  know, I can't imagine singing ever, but I do.
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  I mean, I do. We sang all those in a row. It'd
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  be longer than the book with Joe. It would be.
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  Maybe she should be in a book form. Tony cherry
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  both of you thank you we love you guys also I've
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  had side conversations with Heather Ross. I'm
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  very excited what's coming very soon is. Cameron
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  Cameron driver of course I went and saw him speak
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  at that church I talked about that last time
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  but his wife Jalen and his sister Heather are
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  going to be doing a podcast together. And I've
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  asked them if we could talk about it and bring
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  it into the borough's network and have these
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  two young women talk about this stuff. Super
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  excited about that. That should be coming on
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  soon. When I say soon, I mean the Preterus soon,
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  not the Dispensational soon. If you guys read
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  my article yesterday that I wrote, then you know
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  that the Preterus soon isn't quite soon either.
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  We like to say soon about to and near as if it's
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  immediate, but it was actually 40 years. So it
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  wasn't quite immediate like we like to think.
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  So time is really interesting. Bible's not really
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  concerned so much with chronology is about God
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  completing what he said he's going to do in his
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  world. Yes, it's all about prophecy, isn't it?
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  That's what it's about. And prophecy is weird.
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  It's a weird way of communicating. It's a weird
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  way. Like it is, if you read prophecy with a
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  modern eye, you're not going to even remotely
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  get it. You're just not. It's not even the same
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  kind of language guys. And when we say soon,
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  near and at hand, we like to use it as predators
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  and say, well, how can soon mean 2000 years?
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  Well, how can soon mean 40? Dr. Sam Frost brought
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  that up and I was like, yeah, good point. Good
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  point. Yeah, but the thing is, though, I think
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  that it's not talking about it again. We want
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  it all boxed off nicely, don't we? Oh, this is
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  time time. That's a long time. But I think the
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  thing is, when you think about prophetic time,
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  it's it's short as regards the prophetic time
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  period. That was the time period that it was
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  all going to come to a finish. So as regards
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  to what had gone on before, what had been written,
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  that which was so that they were reaping, it
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  was very soon. And you know what? And that's
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  in the timeline of the entire world when he said
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  it's about to be closed. The age of the Messiah
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  is here. He is the one. It's pretty obvious.
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  Yeah, it was soon. But 40 years and soon just
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  doesn't make sense in a modern mindset. It just
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  doesn't. That's the whole point, because at the
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  end of the day, you've got to think totally outside
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  the Greek thinking mindset. And when you don't
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  do that, that's when you end up going through
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  all sorts of hoops and, and, and jumps to get
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  to a situation that you didn't start off on the
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  right premise anyway. That's right. And that's,
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  and you know what? We've learned that even in
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  this book of Job as I segue back to it, because
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  what we've learned is that this book is just
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  comes out of left field. It comes out of left
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  field. It doesn't make any sense really. Um,
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  but the thing that goes back to the fact that
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  he's starting off on the wrong premise. You know
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  and and as the whole thing starts to unfold it
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  starts to dawn on him the more he starts thinking
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  and the more people even in negativity even in
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  bad things even in unkindnesses that are being
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  said to you like you know like the three comforters
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  There's there's even an awareness being given
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  to you even in that You know, it's our not to
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  reason it's how not to see things and sometimes
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  as I say even in that kind of situation You can
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  start to see things because someone's bringing
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  stuff up negatively that you're thinking, oh,
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  hang on a minute. You know, how does that impact
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  me? It's not just positivity, positivity. You
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  know, this is what suffering is all about. It's
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  very negative. It's really about a positive end.
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  It is. And that's why the book is so startling.
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  And yeah, I mean, you can give it simplistic
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  purpose for being in the Bible if you want. It's
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  about God's sovereignty. Sure. It's about suffering.
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  Sure. Um, it's about, you know, a man who realizes
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  that his own righteousness wasn't quite the righteousness
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  of God. Sure. Sounds good. Like all of those
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  are good, but I want to bring up something that
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  we haven't talked about in quite some time about
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  this book. And, you know, I stopped us in Elihu
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  when he was speaking in chapter 36 around verse
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  15 and 16, because he says he delivers the afflicted
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  through affliction. So it's kind of an, uh, it's
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  kind of a wild idea to think about that, but
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  I want, I want you to notice something about
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  this book right out of the gate. Okay. It comes
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  out with the sons of God and Satan going before
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  God and having this conversation about the man.
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  I want you to notice we have, we've went 36 chapters
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  and of those 36, 34 of them don't mention this
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  at all. Just the first two. Don't you think it's
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  kind of weird? Don't you think it just just think
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  about it from a story perspective perspective
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  Don't you think it's kind of weird that the satan
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  character gets the center stage in chapter one
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  and chapter two and then Nothing goes off into
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  oblivion. That's right. Nothing more And as a
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  matter of fact, aliyah is never going to mention
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  him and god doesn't really mention him either
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  he does mention leviathan and stuff later, but
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  But this satan it's not like it goes back to
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  the courtroom and god says see Satan. None of
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  that happens. Okay. So this is the thing is those
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  are we discussing. Don't even know what's going
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  on anyway. Joe never knows this ever in the Bible.
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  Neither do we lie. None of them ever know about
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  that previous setting that happens in the throne
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  room of God. None of them ever know it. So with
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  that being said, the author of this book is giving
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  us this view. that we're supposed to come out
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  with on the end because we have the first two
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  chapters and then we have the last two chapters
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  as well, more than two actually, God speaks.
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  But that last chapter and the first two chapters,
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  they're juxtaposed against each other and the
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  Satan just goes off into oblivion. Now, I think
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  the thing is, again, it's that Satan isn't given
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  that much relevance in the whole thing. The relevance
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  is that it starts and once it started, there's
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  a purpose to it. God knows exactly the end result
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  of it. which is why he gives him that ability
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  to do that. And that's the whole thing. Instead
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  of sort of like crushing Job, in fact, there's
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  an enlightenment brought about to Job and to
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  the comforters and to Elihu. And they get a totally
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  different sense of it at the ending. Yeah. And
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  I want to ask you a question, just a direct question.
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  You know, whenever God asked Satan the first
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  time, he's like, have you considered my servant
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  Job? If Job was the richest man, In the east
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  if he was the most powerful man in the east,
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  don't you think that satan probably considered
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  him? 100 100 I mean again, you know it well,
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  he said didn't you've you've given him everything,
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  you know, you put a hedge around him. You've
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  given me that's it You've put a hedge around
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  him. Yeah, it's as if like well, there's nothing
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  Well, anybody would do that Well, actually well,
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  they didn't do that did they because satan himself
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  didn't even do it Watch this. I'm going to ask
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  you a weird question. Guys, listen to this. This
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  is kind of a weird question. I want to enter
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  into this study with this thought in mind. I
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  want you to imagine that Satan comes before the
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  throne of God and God says, Hey, Satan. I've
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  got to think, Bob. Have you considered my servants
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  Adam and Eve? That's what you said. Yeah. Right
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  there, back there. Yeah. See, I'm not, me and
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  you. level on that thing. Yeah. So, so if you're
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  going, if you go back to the beginning that serpent
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  is given this access to these people, the hedge
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  is taken away. There must have been one to an
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  extent because then all of a sudden it just shows
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  up on the scene. Even if it's a spiritual head,
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  it's a state of being. That's what it is. That's
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  there in a state of being. This hedges around
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  them in a state of being, this spiritual aspect,
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  this connection with God. That is what they're
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  hedged with. I want to point out that like in
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  our modern world people love to give Satan center
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  stage They love to say the devil is doing this
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  the devil makes me do this or whatever I'm not
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  even gonna talk about this from a full predators
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  perspective I'm not even gonna say it like like
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  normal people would think within full predators,
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  which is the devil doesn't do it He's never ever
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  had power unless it was given to him by the father
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  period that's and he much to his own chagrin
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  has been used for his for god's purposes that
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  is definitely happening now when it comes to
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  this story We talked about all kinds of things
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  we said that this is how to become a high priest
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  we've said this is a story of israel i went off
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  on tangents pointing out that a lie who. Not
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  a lot of the three friends elephaz and bill dad
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  and so far all represent. You know these kingdoms
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  like i went into the all these weeds and stuff
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  you know and then we start talking about a lie
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  who is being like a john the badger's character
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  or a prophet class or you know just one of the
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  voices that cry out before god shows up. I still
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  think all of that's accurate. Okay, I do. I think
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  all of it's accurate. But the one thing that
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  I want us to notice today, because we're not
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  going to get into God speaking, that's going
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  to be next week. What we're going to do is we're
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  going to finish out 36 and all of 37. And I want
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  to point out the shift in Elihu himself. I want
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  you to see how he starts getting prepared for
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  God to show up and start talking. And I want
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  you to think about how when John the Baptist
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  is standing in the River Jordan and he's calling
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  all those people, you need to repent. You need
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  to turn from your wicked ways. You need to do
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  right. You know, the axe is laid at the tree.
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  It's at hand. You need to do this. Like he is
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  the one calling. And then suddenly the Christ
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  shows up and he immediately says, wait, hold
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  up. I need to be baptized by you. Okay. So he,
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  he recognizes when, when Jesus's presence comes
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  to John the Baptist, he immediately recognizes
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  this is unique. This is unique. Whenever Jesus's
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  mother walked in on John the Baptist's mother,
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  He realized he was unique even at birth because
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  he was filled with the Holy Spirit from birth
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  and this was a special Person Jesus Christ was
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  a special man. So that's always been the case
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  So when a lie who is talking to job and he's
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  like be careful job What you've done is you've
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  exuded a lot of self -righteousness You've been
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  talking about yourself and why you're righteous
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  and all this But one thing that you haven't done
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  is you haven't defended God and you haven't even
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  talked about really his character as a matter
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  of fact you kind of defamed it and so I'm not
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  saying that you're evil or wicked or unrighteous
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  or that you've sinned. But what I am saying is
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  that you haven't said the right things or you
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  haven't looked at God in a perspective. That's
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  right. Really, you should have done because you're
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  so clouded by the one that you already have.
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  Right. So it is what people tend to be. They've
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  got that right. They've got that path and they
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  don't feel that there's another path to go off
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  into until somebody points out to them. precisely.
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  If you would, Elaine, would you grab your Bible?
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  Your complete Jewish Bible. That's beautiful.
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  Not the common Jewish Bible, like I said last
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  time. And read verse 15 and 16 from chapter 36
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  again. Just read them, and then we're going to
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  read verse 17. I wanted to stop there on purpose
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  last week. So you want 15 and 16. Let's do 15
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  and 16 first, and then we'll roll into 17. God
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  with his affliction delivers the afflicted and
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  he gets their attention by pressing on them.
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  Indeed, Job, he's drawing you away from distress
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  to an untroubled open place with rich food on
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  your table. That's lovely, isn't it? How powerful
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  is that? Beautiful. Can't stop a lovely picture,
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  doesn't it? It does. He delivers the afflicted
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  by their affliction. Yeah. And this is what I'm
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  saying. Sometimes negativity, sometimes oppression.
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  brings about righteous fruits. And that's what
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  God is saying to him, you know, I'm teaching
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  you something through your affliction. Don't
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  turn around and say, what have I done? I haven't
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  done this. I've done that right. I, I, I, I,
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  I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,
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  I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,
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  I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,
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  I, I, I, I, I, I, I, It is and i wanna i wanna
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  point out something that an atheist friend of
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  mine andy bishop said years ago on the podcast
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  he said you know job gets more children and gets
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  all of his riches back in his life into me that's
• 19:14
  better sugar what about their kids that he loved.
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  And, you know, I remember thinking that that's
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  a really good question. It's a valid question.
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  I can understand the emotion behind it, but there's
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  a truth that lies in this idea here. So he just
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  said that he delivers the afflicted through the
• 19:30
  affliction, which means that there's collateral
• 19:34
  damage on your way to a relationship with God.
• 19:39
  There's collateral damage sometimes. Okay, and
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  I don't I'm not I don't mean like well now your
• 19:43
  friends ain't your friends because you ain't
• 19:45
  drinking and whoring with them anymore That's
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  not what I mean. I mean, it can be real man.
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  Like it can get real like death can be part of
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  it Absolutely, there's all kinds of things that
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  can happen and god's at the center of it He knows
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  what's going on and some people get upset with
• 19:58
  that idea a friend of mine said the other day
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  Well, if that's the way god is then god is evil
• 20:02
  and I was like, nope Like paul in rooms, he says
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  he said How have you got the right to say to
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  the potter, why did you make me like this? Yeah.
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  Why did you give me this body? Why did you give
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  me this this this this life then? If there's
• 20:17
  nothing for me. I was just telling Rick Carter
• 20:19
  yesterday on a phone call. I said, you know what?
• 20:21
  I said, but there's times when I'm like, yeah,
• 20:24
  like that's a rhetorical question. Whenever Paul
• 20:26
  asked that question, like, can can the clay look
• 20:28
  at the potter and say, why do you make this way?
• 20:30
  That's that's I mean, of course he can. The silliness
• 20:34
  of the clay is that clay doesn't speak, but we
• 20:36
  do. And he made us a speaking clay. Okay, and
• 20:40
  so and that's that's they are Yes, and that is
• 20:43
  the point Rick see again what you're doing is
• 20:45
  elevating. It's it's It's raising yourself above
• 20:49
  the thoughts of God beautiful. That's exactly
• 20:52
  what job had done That's exactly what these other
• 20:54
  men had done and that is not really what a lie
• 20:57
  who was doing what a lie Who is doing is pointing
• 20:59
  out what you just said? He's trying to point
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  this out because he's like you guys have missed
• 21:03
  this all of you All of you have missed this point.
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  It's self -centered though, Rick. That's the
• 21:09
  point. When you read all of it, it's self -centered.
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  It is. It goes back to Jesus when he turns around
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  and says, Lord, Lord, you know, didn't I do this
• 21:17
  in your name? Didn't I do that in your name?
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  I, I, I, I, I, Jesus, I never knew you. You were
• 21:22
  doing it for the wrong reason. That's right.
• 21:24
  You were doing it. Me, me, me. It's not about
• 21:26
  you at all. Yeah. And that's exactly right. That's
• 21:31
  exactly right. Right. and it ties in with what
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  Jesus, when he turns around and says, when I
• 21:35
  was hungry, you fed me, when I was thirsty. And
• 21:37
  they said, well, when did we do that? Well, that
• 21:40
  Christ knows you because you were doing it because
• 21:42
  you were his, not because you were going, I've
• 21:44
  done this, I've done that. You were doing it
• 21:46
  because you were the natural character of Christ
• 21:48
  coming through. And that's the difference between
• 21:50
  Job here, I, I, I, Job starting to become aware
• 21:56
  through Elihu, and then there's a total different
• 21:58
  idea of it at the end. There's a grasping of
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  it. It's not I, I, I. Yeah. I want to, I want
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  to tell you about a man that Jesus gave an illustration
• 22:08
  of, which is a perfect illustration of this kind
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  of idea. Okay. So there's this tax collector
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  that goes into the temple and then he's with
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  a Pharisee. You know the story. Yes. And the
• 22:22
  Pharisee looks at the tax collector and he says
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  to himself, Lord, I'm so glad I'm not like him.
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  I'm glad I tithe a tenth. of my mint -dilling
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  human. I am not like that guy. I'm just so glad.
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  I, I, I, I, I, I, I. And then he said in the
• 22:39
  tax collector, he couldn't even look up at heaven.
• 22:40
  He just couldn't even look up. And he beat upon
• 22:43
  his breast and he said, God have mercy upon me,
• 22:46
  a sinner. And then he asked the question. That's
• 22:50
  right. And he said, who rose up justified that
• 22:53
  day? Right? All right. So it was the tax collector
• 22:56
  that realized his position to God, his heart
• 22:58
  posture to God. He just said, you know what?
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  I need mercy from you because you're God. And
• 23:03
  you know what? He should be. And he's thankful
• 23:05
  that he does have a merciful God. And that's
• 23:07
  what Jesus is pointing out is that he is looking
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  at my father. He's not looking at himself. And
• 23:13
  when he looks at himself, all he sees is that
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  he needs mercy. And my father will give him mercy
• 23:17
  because he rose up justified that day. Okay.
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  Exactly. Exactly. This is what Elihu is showing
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  you. Elihu is really telling you like how to
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  get to beating on the own breast about yourself
• 23:28
  and remembering that you need the mercy from
• 23:31
  the father. Now I want an ear. I want to be able
• 23:34
  to stand before God and I want to be able to
• 23:36
  justify myself. Yeah. I'm so glad that I gave
• 23:40
  that tenth of mint, dill, and cumin. But again,
• 23:43
  it just shows you, doesn't it? This is the whole
• 23:45
  thing, isn't it? It's going back to you. I have
• 23:49
  got to give that 10th, I have got to do this,
• 23:52
  I have got to fast, I have got to, I, I, I, I,
• 23:57
  I. But again, when you really have a relationship,
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  and this is the whole point, this is what it
• 24:02
  hinges on, is it just a doing of something, or
• 24:06
  do your attitudes and your works and all that
• 24:08
  you display in your life, do they come because
• 24:11
  you have a relationship? So it's the relationship
• 24:14
  that matters, that forges forward all those things
• 24:17
  that you want to do and desire to do because
• 24:20
  you love God. It's not about, oh, look what I,
• 24:23
  I, I, this is what I say to people sometimes.
• 24:25
  You know, they say, I've done it. And I say,
• 24:26
  I, I, I, I, I, I. It's not how you do. It's about,
• 24:31
  it's about God. It's about what's God doing in
• 24:33
  your life. That's a great point. And so let's
• 24:36
  go back to John the Baptist real quick again.
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  Because you have to really do a paradigm shift.
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  You've got you've got to get a grasp of what's
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  actually happening in John's time. John is standing
• 24:45
  in the River Jordan. These people know what this
• 24:47
  means. This is their crossing place into the
• 24:50
  promised land. There's also and he's calling
• 24:52
  for repentance. And by the way, he's doing it
• 24:55
  and he's calling the scribes and Pharisees the
• 24:58
  offspring of the Satan character, the offspring
• 25:01
  of Vipers. Right. You are the children. of the
• 25:05
  devil, right? And he's saying, you need to, the
• 25:09
  ax is laid at the tree telling them. So in essence,
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  what he's saying is, is it's all about you, you,
• 25:16
  you. But what you don't realize is that you're
• 25:18
  the one that's going to be judged. You bring
• 25:20
  a lot of judgment, but the reality is, is that
• 25:23
  you're the one that's going to be judged. You
• 25:24
  need to repent of this, right? That's really
• 25:28
  what Elihu is doing. He's bringing out this aspect.
• 25:31
  Read that next verse. Watch what he says right
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  after. He says about the delivering of the afflicted
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  by their afflictions, and he's allured you out
• 25:38
  of this distress into a broad place, into this
• 25:41
  beautiful place, right? And then watch what he
• 25:43
  says in verse 17. 16? Verse 17. Okay. But the
• 25:49
  judgment on the wicked applies fully to you.
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  Judgment and condemnation take hold of them.
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  Yeah, now let me read it in the ESV. He says,
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  but you are full of the judgment on the wicked
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  judgment and justice sees you Beware lest wrath
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  entice you into scoffing and letting out the
• 26:09
  greatness of the ransom turn you aside Notice
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  he mentions the ransom. I'm reading in English
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  Sorry, I went into 18 then I didn't know you
• 26:17
  wanted me to read 18. No, no, no, no, no, it's
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  okay Beware lest you wrath entice you into scoffing
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  and let not the greatness of the ransom Turn
• 26:26
  you aside so that ransom remember that ransom
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  we talked about that earlier. He mentions that
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  ransom earlier in this talk so Jesus Christ is
• 26:34
  gonna die as a ransom for many John the Baptist
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  is the one introducing this man that's coming
• 26:38
  here that a lie who is that? guy like a lie who
• 26:42
  is the one that has listened to the Pharisees
• 26:45
  scoff. He's listened to the Sadducees say there
• 26:49
  is no resurrection. He's listening to all this.
• 26:52
  And then he's watched job come from a position
• 26:55
  of sorry for himself and wanting the ear of God
• 26:59
  to saying, okay, very carefully job. I need you
• 27:04
  to watch out because you need to repent because
• 27:08
  what you're doing is you've let this judgment
• 27:11
  seize you. You've gotten on the other side of
• 27:14
  this. This is what you have. You've missed the
• 27:16
  point of the ransom. You've missed the point
• 27:19
  of the affliction. You've missed the reason for
• 27:22
  the affliction and you've missed the reasoner
• 27:24
  of it. So we keep saying that over and over and
• 27:27
  over, but it's important to note that this theme
• 27:30
  always happens in the Bible. The people forget.
• 27:36
  The people go on about life and life does what
• 27:39
  life does and it's almost like they forgot It's
• 27:41
  almost like they need to be woken awakened. Sorry
• 27:44
  awakened up to it That's what had to happen to
• 27:48
  me when I went through all of that death and
• 27:50
  grief and the hardships of the business stuff
• 27:53
  It woke me up. Like I wasn't even thinking about
• 27:57
  like I love the Lord and I serve the Lord and
• 27:59
  I do all this Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's great.
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  I I I I I I Am I right, Elaine? Exactly. Aye,
• 28:08
  aye, aye, aye, aye. I love the Lord and I serve
• 28:09
  the Lord. Aye, aye, aye, aye. Wrong. Hold on
• 28:12
  a minute. You've forgotten something about me.
• 28:15
  You've forgotten that I am here. I'm the one
• 28:19
  to charge this. All of those things that you
• 28:21
  put your hope in, that you've reasoned in your
• 28:24
  mind like, well, I've built this. Look at all
• 28:26
  that I've built. Rick Welch, good job. You've
• 28:29
  made a $10 million a year company. I'm so proud
• 28:31
  of you. Watch this. Boom! Remember what he said
• 28:34
  to the man who built the two, you know, the big
• 28:37
  grateries? Yeah, the barns. And he's like, okay,
• 28:40
  I've got it all set. And he was like, you idiot.
• 28:43
  Today, your life is taken from you. What? See,
• 28:47
  Jesus shows us all of these different lessons
• 28:49
  about the relationship to the Father. it does
• 28:53
  but then again it's all again but it's like jesus
• 28:55
  when he turns around and says the father will
• 28:57
  prune you you will be pruned like i said last
• 28:59
  week or last time that we spoke about it you
• 29:01
  know sometimes like you you you're heavily laden
• 29:04
  with fruit you think you've got it all the father
• 29:06
  comes along and says right now i'm moving you
• 29:08
  on to the next level bang boom hang on a minute
• 29:11
  i was i was like i was really looking quite good
• 29:14
  then you can't go on and chop me back but you
• 29:17
  don't get a stronger bigger more fruitage tree
• 29:20
  unless you do cut it back when it's at its best.
• 29:24
  And that's the point. Yes. Thank you. Because
• 29:28
  that's exactly what's going to happen to Job
• 29:30
  later. Yes. But guys, he's being pruned. He's
• 29:32
  being pulled back. He's being reminded of something.
• 29:36
  You were saying in your heart, perhaps my children
• 29:39
  don't know God in their heart, when in reality,
• 29:43
  he didn't. Or is he turning around saying like
• 29:47
  Satan's really picked the wrong moment? Because
• 29:49
  like he says, Haven't you given him everything?
• 29:52
  Haven't you done all this and he got that? And
• 29:54
  he's thinking, yeah, I'm going to prune him right
• 29:56
  back now. And he's going to become bigger, stronger,
• 29:59
  more fully laden with fruit. And Satan's fallen
• 30:02
  right into the trap of God because through affliction,
• 30:05
  you learned righteousness and God's mercy. You
• 30:10
  don't yeah, and then and then to cap it all off.
• 30:14
  He never mentions the Satan again It is the perfect
• 30:18
  book. It's like it's so good Guys, if you only
• 30:22
  can grasp just how good this book is. It's so
• 30:25
  good Alright, let's keep moving on Elaine if
• 30:29
  you would if you are you willing to read the
• 30:30
  rest of the chapter? So you heard what we said
• 30:32
  of a read verse 18 again from your complete Jewish
• 30:36
  Bible and let's go through The rest of the verses
• 30:38
  down to verse 33, okay It says for beware of
• 30:42
  Roth when abundance entices you don't let a big
• 30:46
  bribe turn you aside Will your great wealth help
• 30:49
  you or all your efforts no matter how strong?
• 30:53
  Don't desire the night when people suddenly die
• 30:56
  Be careful. Turn away from wrongdoing. For because
• 31:00
  of this, you have been tested by affliction.
• 31:04
  Look, God is exalted in his strength. Who is
• 31:07
  a teacher like him? Who ever prescribed his course
• 31:10
  for him? Who ever said, what are you doing is
• 31:13
  wrong? Remember rather to magnify his work, of
• 31:18
  which many have sung. Everyone has seen it, but
• 31:22
  humans see it only from a distance. Look. God
• 31:26
  is great. Beyond what we can know, the number
• 31:30
  of his years is uncountable. He makes the droplets
• 31:34
  of water which condense into rain from his mist.
• 31:37
  The clouds pour it down upon humankind in abundance.
• 31:41
  Can anyone fathom the spreading of the clouds
• 31:43
  or the crashes that come from his canopy? See
• 31:47
  how he scatters his lightning over it and covers
• 31:49
  the roots of the sea. By these things he judges
• 31:53
  the people. and also gives food in plenty. He
• 31:57
  gathers the lightning into his hands and commands
• 32:00
  it to strike the target. It's crashing, announces
• 32:04
  its presence, and apprises the cattle of what
• 32:07
  he's coming. Well, Cherry, they mentioned those
• 32:10
  cows chewing again. How about that? There they
• 32:13
  go. It's coming up for another chew. So do you
• 32:18
  remember last week, guys, when I was like, you
• 32:20
  know, I think that he's seeing the storm early.
• 32:23
  Like I think he's noticing the rumbling off in
• 32:25
  the distance. So in the ancient world a Thunderstorm
• 32:30
  and you better get up in that tent or climb up
• 32:31
  in a clit in a cave Okay, you don't just stand
• 32:33
  out there like yeah, I love it. It's a scary
• 32:36
  thing All right, so but when he says behold verse
• 32:40
  22 Behold God is exalted in power. I literally
• 32:45
  think that as he's speaking that he's starting
• 32:49
  to feel the drops of rain He's hearing the thundering
• 32:53
  peals of the storm that's coming across I know
• 32:56
  he is because when you get to chapter 38 God
• 32:59
  speaks from this thing So I know that at this
• 33:03
  point he's seeing it and you know what so is
• 33:05
  John the Baptist? John the Baptist when he's
• 33:09
  born into the world he's born into one of the
• 33:11
  most tumultuous times This is a time whenever
• 33:14
  Herod who is an Edumian is at the height of his
• 33:17
  power and that's not good He's an Edomite This
• 33:21
  is the time when Rome has taken over and everything
• 33:24
  is a mess. The scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees.
• 33:28
  They're all corrupt. They're all corrupt. The
• 33:31
  people are burdened. Like life is an absolute
• 33:34
  crap show. I mean, it is, it is often he's born
• 33:36
  into this world. Okay. I mean, it seems very
• 33:39
  interesting where it says that don't let a big
• 33:41
  bribe turn your side. Well, when you look at
• 33:43
  in Jesus day, if they're all the, all the religious
• 33:45
  leaders have taken bribes. Oh, absolutely. The
• 33:48
  scribes were writing iniquitous decrees and devouring
• 33:51
  widows' houses, Jesus said. They absolutely were
• 33:54
  doing it. Yeah. There was a point I was going
• 33:57
  to say, oh, it's interesting that when you talk
• 33:59
  about John the Baptist going down and then Christ
• 34:01
  coming towards them. And this was the time really
• 34:03
  where, you know, the rubber hit the road, as
• 34:05
  you Americans would say. And it's interesting
• 34:08
  where it says he gathers the lightning into his
• 34:10
  hands. He commands it to strike the target. its
• 34:12
  crushings announces its presence and apprises
• 34:15
  the cattle of what is coming. Now the high priest
• 34:17
  at the bottom of his garments used to have bells
• 34:20
  and pomegranates. The bells and the pomegranates
• 34:23
  signified lightning and thunder. That isn't interesting.
• 34:28
  If you talk about Christ now is the one that's
• 34:30
  coming and this is sort of like a precursor to
• 34:33
  that and we're reading that into it. Well Christ
• 34:35
  is the lightning, he is the thunder. You can
• 34:38
  only go to Revelation and it'll tell you that
• 34:40
  out of that the lightning and the thunder comes
• 34:43
  voices. And this is the whole thing. Once again,
• 34:46
  it's this poetic language that is carried right
• 34:48
  the way through the Bible in not only this poetry,
• 34:51
  but also in symbols, in things that they would
• 34:53
  have worn, would have put on. They all mean something.
• 34:57
  And the Bible is being tied together, you know,
• 34:59
  and it's so wonderful. Again, when he went down
• 35:01
  into the Jordan, like you said, that's where
• 35:03
  they crossed. But when he went down into the
• 35:05
  Jordan, you remember that when they crossed,
• 35:07
  it said the river got stopped from Adam. down
• 35:10
  to the Dead Sea. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, from Adam
• 35:13
  to the Dead Sea. Oh, it's incredibly sort of
• 35:15
  like amazing, isn't it? You know, yeah, it's
• 35:17
  interesting. Well, you've got this just those
• 35:21
  words that that place called Adam, which is interesting,
• 35:24
  you know, just the play on words that works with
• 35:26
  that. Exactly. And this is the crossing. This
• 35:28
  is the part where you enter into the whole year
• 35:30
  by this man that's coming down. He's the thunder
• 35:32
  and the lightning. That's right. Mm hmm. Yeah.
• 35:35
  So And so later on, you know, in Jesus's ministry,
• 35:39
  he'll do things with storms. Yeah, he'll sleep
• 35:42
  during them. He will pause them. He will. His
• 35:47
  disciples will fear like the storm is going to
• 35:49
  take our life. You know, and you're back there
• 35:52
  just to sleep and man, like, what's this all
• 35:55
  about? We're paling for our life. He's like,
• 35:58
  exactly what he talks about as the lightning
• 36:00
  hits the sky from one side to the other. Lightning.
• 36:03
  Again, it's this lighting up. It's like this
• 36:06
  presence. You're going to be able to see it.
• 36:09
  It's this brilliant light, you know? The whole
• 36:13
  thing is wonderful. I think what's amazing, and
• 36:16
  I think what's amazing too in the story of Job,
• 36:20
  is let's just be real, okay? If this really actually
• 36:23
  happened and it's not just some allegory, then
• 36:26
  I want you to notice that Job actually gets a
• 36:30
  visitation. Okay, and a lie who recognizes that
• 36:34
  this man's getting ready to get an invitation.
• 36:37
  And I think a lie who recognizes the holiness
• 36:41
  of God better than all four of them in front
• 36:44
  of him. He's not demanding that God get there.
• 36:48
  He knows God's coming and he can feel it. And
• 36:51
  it's so important that he comes and it's gonna
• 36:54
  be so important that he must decrease so that
• 36:57
  God will increase. You won't hear another word
• 37:00
  out of him when it's done. Once he's done talking,
• 37:02
  it's over, okay? Just like you won't hear another
• 37:05
  word out of the Satan. There comes a time in
• 37:10
  the story where God's gonna deal with his people.
• 37:13
  And when he deals with them, it's one -on -one.
• 37:16
  And it is holy ground. Take those sandals off,
• 37:18
  Moses. Exactly. Because you and I are talking
• 37:21
  and where you're standing is on holy ground.
• 37:23
  Yeah. Okay? I mean, it's like you said about,
• 37:25
  you know, like... And like you said, the axe
• 37:27
  is already laid at the root of the trees. Yes.
• 37:30
  These were individual trees. These people were
• 37:33
  likened to trees by John the baptizer. That's
• 37:37
  right. So again, it's showing you again how God
• 37:41
  viewed the nation of Israel as these plants,
• 37:44
  as these trees, as these ones that would be chopped
• 37:47
  down at the roots. Nothing left. That's right.
• 37:50
  Again, it's just understanding. Not being pruned.
• 37:54
  Not being pruned. no cut down cut down thrown
• 37:58
  into the fire that's right all right so as he
• 38:03
  goes through here you know uh verse 23 who is
• 38:07
  prescribed for him his way or who can say you
• 38:09
  have done wrong remember job is like god's done
• 38:13
  evil to me all right verse 24 remember to extol
• 38:16
  his work of which men have sung think about all
• 38:19
  the times people have sung about what god has
• 38:21
  done right in the scriptures all of the psalms
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  that have been written about him Mankind is looked
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  on, and man beholds it from afar. Behold, God
• 38:28
  is great, and we know him not, and number of
• 38:31
  his years is unsearchable. I think he's looking
• 38:33
  off in the distance, and it's like, when here
• 38:35
  he comes, he's like, here he comes. Look, God
• 38:38
  is great. You can't think about how unsearchable
• 38:42
  are his ways. He is the holy of holies. He's
• 38:47
  the Almighty. You don't just go to him and talk
• 38:50
  to him, dude. Like, stop. Like, not the way you're
• 38:53
  doing. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
• 38:58
  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
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  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
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  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
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  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
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  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
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  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
• 39:01
  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
• 39:01
  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
• 39:01
  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
• 39:01
  aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, You know,
• 39:15
  how can you say that to God? You know, God can
• 39:17
  do anything he chooses and we know that God is
• 39:20
  a righteous God. We know that his years are uncountable.
• 39:23
  I mean, how can you sort of sit there and turn
• 39:25
  around and say, well, actually, I'm afraid you're
• 39:28
  wrong, Father. I'm afraid you're wrong, God.
• 39:30
  No, that doesn't work. Well, I mean, like he
• 39:33
  says that he sits in the heavens and laughs.
• 39:36
  Right. You know, he sure does. So I'm one, isn't
• 39:40
  it? He sits in the heavens and laughs. You know,
• 39:42
  I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that. Aye,
• 39:44
  aye, aye, aye, again. Aye, aye, aye, aye. Oh,
• 39:46
  aye, aye, aye. Exactly. So guys, if you would
• 39:51
  turn over to chapter 37 and only read the first
• 39:53
  two verses. I want to show you something unique
• 39:56
  about Elihu. We've already talked a little bit
• 39:57
  about it, but I want you to notice something
• 39:58
  about Elihu. At this, my own heart trembles and
• 40:04
  leaps out of its place. Just listen to the rumblings
• 40:07
  of his voice, to the thunder. that comes out
• 40:10
  of his mouth. Yeah. So what does he take about
• 40:13
  his own heart? What did Elihu just say? He's
• 40:17
  like, you know what? My heart trembles. I'm trembling.
• 40:21
  The thought of God, you like this, aren't you?
• 40:23
  What does Paul tell a Christian to do whenever
• 40:26
  they become a believer? Work out your own salvation
• 40:29
  through fear and trembling. So what is trembling
• 40:33
  exactly? What is Elihu doing that we need to
• 40:38
  be doing? Okay, so there comes this understanding
• 40:42
  of not only just awe and reverence but the fear
• 40:45
  of God like the total to Understand like when
• 40:49
  he's watching a thunderstorm all of us We have
• 40:52
  these meteorologists that can tell us what's
• 40:54
  gonna happen and they get it wrong most of the
• 40:55
  time But they don't think of it like oh, it's
• 40:58
  a God, you know, that's coming on a storm Right
• 41:00
  the cloud rider like bail. We don't think like
• 41:03
  that anymore. That's not the world We're in but
• 41:06
  it was the world that he was in And that was
• 41:08
  how they were perceiving what God was doing.
• 41:11
  And Elihu was like, you know what, when I hear
• 41:13
  that thunder, my heart melts like wax in my chest.
• 41:17
  Exactly. That's what you need to be towards God,
• 41:21
  towards God. Your heart needs to melt like wax.
• 41:25
  Well, I mean, you think of it, when they were
• 41:26
  at the foot of the Sinai, when God came down
• 41:30
  with the smoke and the noise and that, it says
• 41:32
  that they were just trembling, the knees were
• 41:34
  knocking, they were just like, we can't cope.
• 41:36
  You imagine, I mean, I know when I hear a thunderstorm
• 41:40
  over the top goes bang and my window shape. I
• 41:43
  mean, you just think to yourself, my word, Lord,
• 41:45
  that is just I can't even say a fraction because
• 41:48
  that would even be too big. Right. That is God's
• 41:51
  power and awesome nature. That is what he is.
• 41:55
  So to magnify that in an unsearchable amount,
• 41:59
  I can't even fathom how grand and majestic he
• 42:03
  is. I can't. And we're just defining mankind
• 42:05
  on this little tiny speck of dust in the middle
• 42:08
  of a gigantic universe that we have been able
• 42:12
  to perceive. We've been able to perceive the
• 42:14
  best we can as we look out. We're a speck. Guys
• 42:18
  and and so we're just we're just defining God's
• 42:21
  power through a thunderstorm You can imagine
• 42:24
  God's actual immensity and power, but that's
• 42:27
  the point of the heart The heart needs to be
• 42:30
  in that posture towards God. It doesn't demand
• 42:32
  of God You can approach the when you approach
• 42:36
  the throne boldly He doesn't mean come to it
• 42:38
  like a smart alec like you go. God's gonna do
• 42:40
  what I say now That's not the boldness that it's
• 42:43
  talking about You can come to him boldly as a
• 42:46
  son, because he's granted you access as a son.
• 42:49
  But you still respect him with great awe and
• 42:52
  reverence. You're still going to kneel. Yes.
• 42:55
  Every tongue will confess, and every knee shall
• 42:58
  bow. Yeah. Everyone. I mean, it's interesting,
• 43:01
  even in like the royal family. I mean, I know
• 43:05
  that's like me, but the royal family, even the
• 43:08
  son and the daughter has to curtsy and bow, even
• 43:13
  if they're just going in to speak to their mother
• 43:16
  or their father, they have to do that. It's showing
• 43:20
  that reverence and awe to the position that they
• 43:23
  have. And if you do that to an earthly person,
• 43:28
  how much more so when we approach our father,
• 43:32
  that also is our God. And that's the same thing,
• 43:36
  you know, he's our King. So we approach him with
• 43:40
  great joy, with great connection. But there's
• 43:43
  still this awe and reverence for him. And there
• 43:46
  are times I must admit that I do enter and I
• 43:48
  enter a bit sort of like, you know, skipping
• 43:50
  and jumping and not really giving that sort of
• 43:53
  credence to the fact that he's that awesome and
• 43:56
  majestic. And I think that's the beauty of the
• 43:58
  relationship. Look, look, he also understands
• 44:01
  that we're his children. He also understands
• 44:03
  that we are just we're made of clay. He's not
• 44:06
  unaware of that. But it's also important. That's
• 44:08
  fine. But when people say, yeah, I'm a big friend
• 44:11
  upstairs and they say it that way. I'm like,
• 44:13
  you're not. I don't think you quite got it. Actually,
• 44:16
  I don't think Prince William would be saying
• 44:18
  that to his dad. No, no. And I think when people
• 44:22
  say that, you know, you know, me and Jesus, we
• 44:24
  we pals, man. Yeah, we roll together. I'm like,
• 44:29
  I don't think you quite got it. I don't think
• 44:31
  you quite got it. Like, I understand the vernacular,
• 44:34
  but I just think you're missing the heart posture.
• 44:36
  Yeah, I'm not judging you. I'm not. I know you
• 44:40
  want - Isn't it like that though, Rick? There
• 44:42
  are times when, and I know that all of us that
• 44:44
  are listening to this have that, that I'm speaking
• 44:46
  to him and I am just compelled to get on my knees.
• 44:49
  I'm compelled to get on my knees. Where I could
• 44:52
  be in the kitchen, stirring something, I'm compelled
• 44:54
  to get on my knees because I'm aware who I'm
• 44:56
  talking to. All of a sudden it's hit me who I'm
• 44:59
  speaking to and I need to get on my knees to
• 45:01
  show him that this is the posture that I have
• 45:05
  towards him. That's right. I love how I come
• 45:06
  to him as a daddy. But I still recognize that
• 45:09
  authority that he has because he is my God. Yes.
• 45:14
  My daddy. You nailed it on the head. And that's
• 45:16
  what that guys, if you can just get a grasp of
• 45:19
  Elihu being that voice in the wilderness, that
• 45:22
  one that's crying out, he's about in this chapter
• 45:25
  in L .A. I want you to read the rest of it. We're
• 45:26
  going to go all the way through verse 24 with
• 45:28
  just guys. I want you to notice that what he's
• 45:30
  doing is he's actually proclaiming God's majesty.
• 45:34
  And that's it. Uh, read it from verse three all
• 45:37
  the way out. Just read the rest of the way. So
• 45:39
  he's going to talk a lot about creation. He's
• 45:41
  going to talk a lot about chapter 37, chapter
• 45:43
  37, starting in verse three. You've already read
• 45:45
  verse one and two. He says he sends it out under
• 45:49
  all of heaven. He's lightning to the ends of
• 45:51
  the earth. There follows a sound, a roar. He
• 45:55
  is thundering with his majestic voice and he
• 45:58
  keeps releasing the lightning even while his
• 46:01
  voice is being heard. God thunders wonderfully
• 46:04
  with his voice. He does great things beyond our
• 46:07
  understanding. He says to the snow, fall on the
• 46:10
  earth, likewise to the light rain, also to the
• 46:14
  downpour. He brings all human activity to a stop
• 46:17
  so that everyone he has made can know it. Then
• 46:22
  the animals go into their lairs and hibernate
• 46:25
  in their dens. Out of its chamber comes the storm
• 46:29
  with cold out of the north. By the breath of
• 46:32
  God, ice is given, and the wide waters freeze
• 46:35
  over. He weighs the clouds down with moisture,
• 46:39
  and they flash forth His lightning. He, by His
• 46:42
  plans, turns them around, so they do what He
• 46:46
  commands them anywhere on earth. He brings them
• 46:49
  forth on the earth, sometimes to punish, sometimes
• 46:53
  to express His grace. Listen to this, Job. Stop
• 46:57
  and consider God's wonders. Do you know how God
• 47:01
  puts them in his place? How he causes lightning
• 47:04
  to flash from his cloud? Do you know how he balances
• 47:07
  the clouds? These are marbles of him who knows
• 47:10
  everything. You sweltering in your clothing as
• 47:14
  the earth lies still under the sultry south wind.
• 47:17
  Can you with him spread out the sky hard as cast
• 47:21
  metal mirror? Teach us what we should tell him
• 47:25
  for the darkness keeps us from organizing our
• 47:28
  case. Is he to be told that I will speak? Can
• 47:32
  a man speak at all when he is already swallowed
• 47:34
  up? Now people don't see the light which is brought
• 47:37
  by the sky, but then the wind blows and clears
• 47:41
  the clouds away. Out of the North comes a golden
• 47:44
  glow, fearsome majesty surrounding God, Shaddai
• 47:48
  whom we cannot find, whose power is immense in
• 47:52
  his great righteousness. That does not pervert
• 47:55
  justice. This is why people fear him. He does
• 47:59
  not confuse. Oh, so he does not consider those
• 48:02
  who think of themselves as wise. Sorry about
• 48:06
  that. My words say here, therefore men fear him.
• 48:09
  He does not regard any who are wise in their
• 48:12
  own consent. Yeah, it's the same thing. Aye -aye
• 48:17
  -aye So so alright, so he's talking about the
• 48:20
  majesty of God, but he's doing it with creation
• 48:22
  He's pointing out things like the clouds when
• 48:24
  he talks about that hard mirror, you know of
• 48:27
  the sky that he makes So I want to point something
• 48:30
  out because there's a lot of people a lot of
• 48:32
  modern thinkers a lot of scientists a lot of
• 48:34
  people that like to look at this book and it's
• 48:37
  poetry guys and that's what it's about and You
• 48:39
  know a lie who is this ancient man? He's pointing
• 48:42
  out that these storms, you know, that's what
• 48:43
  ancient dudes do Guys, God never changed, okay?
• 48:50
  God brings the storms. God is in control of our
• 48:53
  weather. God is in control of the spinning of
• 48:55
  the earth and that hard metal mirror that is
• 48:57
  out there that we call the sky. God is still
• 49:00
  that God. He is in that creation. Yes, and Elihu
• 49:04
  points it out. But the Bible uses these words
• 49:07
  also as symbols of things. He's pointing out
• 49:12
  certain aspects of God. In his creation when
• 49:16
  god makes this thing he's showing things about
• 49:19
  himself and that's what a lie who is really pointing
• 49:22
  out right now he's like. When you see the snow
• 49:25
  fall i want you to know that you can't do anything
• 49:27
  about it guess what maybe some people are weather
• 49:30
  creators and they're trying to do stuff today
• 49:31
  manipulate weather and i know some people believe
• 49:33
  that maybe they are maybe maybe people are doing
• 49:35
  that but guess what they can't control it the
• 49:38
  whole way they can't stop it. They can't stop
• 49:41
  it. They can start it again. We don't want to
• 49:43
  say what the God has allowed that to happen.
• 49:45
  Yeah, but you can, if you want to, that's what
• 49:47
  you want to say. Weather manipulation. They're
• 49:49
  not bringing in the South wind that brings in
• 49:50
  the cold. They're not creating snow storms. They
• 49:54
  might be putting stuff in your snow. That's creating
• 49:56
  weird snowfall and you can set it on fire. I've
• 50:00
  seen that in Kentucky. That's nuts. But, but
• 50:04
  the point is they might be manipulating weather,
• 50:06
  but weather was already here. They're just manipulating
• 50:08
  something that was already here. Okay. God is
• 50:11
  still the God of gods. He is still the most powerful.
• 50:14
  He's still worthy of our adoration and praise.
• 50:18
  A hundred percent. All right. I just like it
• 50:20
  where it says in verse 16, these are marbles
• 50:22
  of him who knows everything. Yeah. And that's
• 50:27
  yes. And guys, Elihu is not wrong. He's not.
• 50:34
  He's not perfectly right either. He doesn't have
• 50:37
  to be. He can be like John the Baptist. He doesn't
• 50:39
  have to know everything. He just has to do what
• 50:42
  he's supposed to do. Because God follows up after
• 50:46
  Elihu and speaks from that storm. Exactly. But
• 50:49
  everything he's saying though, it's a bit like
• 50:52
  when Jesus said, keep your eyes simple. He's
• 50:55
  pointing out really things that are very simple
• 50:58
  to understand and to acknowledge and see. But
• 51:02
  he's pointing them out in such a way that it's
• 51:05
  bringing you to your realization of actually,
• 51:08
  I can't do that. Actually, I don't know where
• 51:11
  that comes from. Actually, I don't know where
• 51:13
  it's going. Yes, it does come from the sky and
• 51:17
  it does go into the ground. It does water the
• 51:20
  plants and they do grow because of it. Can I
• 51:22
  do that? No. These are very simple things. I
• 51:25
  mean, Joe's put across a very human argument.
• 51:28
  It's very human. But here the simplicity of it
• 51:32
  like you it's just pointing to the things that
• 51:34
  they are probably just taking for granted But
• 51:37
  it's only when it's brought to your attention
• 51:39
  that you start thinking. Oh my gosh, that's quite
• 51:42
  simple really Mm -hmm. That's quite easy to understand
• 51:45
  all these things that job has been saying quite
• 51:48
  right But they they've been but they're not right
• 51:52
  in the sense of towards God Mm -hmm. He's trying
• 51:55
  to justify himself by looking himself But here
• 51:59
  Elihu's pointed to the very things. Look outside
• 52:02
  of yourself, Joe. What do you see? And I'm pointing
• 52:06
  out very simple things here. And that's, I think,
• 52:08
  what Christ is saying. Keep your eyes simple.
• 52:11
  Just focus on God. If you focus on God, you've
• 52:14
  got it made, you've cracked it. But we don't.
• 52:19
  Other little things come in the periphery and
• 52:21
  we start having a little glance, you know, and
• 52:23
  that's where Christ will pluck it out if that
• 52:25
  happens. And this is what's happening to Job
• 52:28
  here. He's having an awful lot of stuff clucked
• 52:30
  out. And then his eye is being created simple.
• 52:36
  And that's the whole point. He's quite simple.
• 52:40
  Yeah, absolutely. And do me a favor, turn over
• 52:42
  to the next chapter. I just want you to read
• 52:45
  the first two verses and then we're going to
• 52:46
  go back to 37 because I want to point something
• 52:48
  out. But read the first two verses of the next
• 52:51
  chapter, because this is where we're heading
• 52:53
  next week, guys. We're about to finish this study.
• 52:56
  This is amazing. It's hard to believe that we
• 52:58
  have literally got this far Elaine, but we have
• 53:01
  we're about to wrap this study up It's baby.
• 53:03
  No, maybe two more two more sessions max and
• 53:07
  we're done, you know We might even do like a
• 53:09
  two -hour special and just close the book out
• 53:12
  actually rather than spread it out over weeks
• 53:14
  Yeah. All right, so read those next two verses
• 53:17
  right so then add and I answered job out of the
• 53:21
  storm Who is this darkening my plans with his
• 53:25
  ignorant words? Stand up like a man embrace yourself.
• 53:30
  I will ask questions and you Give the answers.
• 53:35
  Oh, I mean, can you imagine that? Can you imagine
• 53:38
  God saying that to you? Oh my god, even that
• 53:41
  need that even saying that and applying it to
• 53:43
  yourself is like There's some things I better
• 53:45
  sort of like start taking my thinking Now, let's
• 53:50
  point out the fact that God doesn't say a word
• 53:52
  to Elihu. Elihu's already there. Now listen,
• 53:58
  in the KJV, the King James version, I want you
• 54:00
  to listen closely. I love how it puts it. In
• 54:04
  verse two. Who is this that darkness counseled
• 54:08
  by words without knowledge? Gird up now, thy
• 54:12
  loins. That's verse three. Yep, gird up now thy
• 54:16
  loins like a man for I will demand of thee and
• 54:19
  answer that me He didn't say it to the three
• 54:21
  friends and he's sitting to do it certainly didn't
• 54:22
  say it to a lie Who a lie who had already girded
• 54:25
  up his loins? I want you to know that he's already
• 54:28
  looking off in the distance He's seeing the lightning
• 54:30
  and the thunder and it's coming and he's feeling
• 54:31
  the rain. It's getting closer feeling the wind
• 54:34
  He's like yeah the very fact that god said to
• 54:38
  him gird up your loins i mean when you gird it
• 54:40
  up your loins you put the back end of your garb
• 54:42
  around from the back put it in the front tucked
• 54:44
  it in because you're ready for action this is
• 54:46
  right there's a bit of action it's getting ready
• 54:48
  to go into battle he's like getting ready i'm
• 54:51
  getting ready to stop your you know what so yeah
• 54:55
  exactly i will ask questions and you give the
• 54:58
  answers oh my god can you imagine god saying
• 55:00
  that i mean immediately i'd say you've won You
• 55:03
  know what, when I was a little boy, somebody
• 55:06
  shared the gospel with me at the church and I
• 55:08
  was not afraid. It wasn't a scary situation.
• 55:12
  But I remember when I heard his voice, I knew
• 55:14
  exactly who I was. I knew it immediately. And
• 55:18
  there was a reverence and an awe. And I was thankful
• 55:21
  for the love and the grace that was being given
• 55:23
  to me. But I knew who I was in his sight. Even
• 55:26
  as a 10 year old little boy, I recognized it.
• 55:28
  And if you're a 50 year old now like me, and
• 55:32
  you still don't feel that way, then you... Are
• 55:34
  you not 51, Rick? I'm 51. I just turned 51. You
• 55:38
  said 50, you're old man. Well, I'm in my 50s,
• 55:41
  but you're right. I'm also... I'm sorry to pull
• 55:44
  you up, bro. You go ahead and do that. I haven't
• 55:46
  told anybody how old you are, and I never will
• 55:49
  because I value my life. Now, listen, so Elihu
• 55:55
  was right. That's the point I just want to say
• 55:59
  at the end of this study today. Aliyah was right.
• 56:02
  Aliyah understood... I don't know whether we
• 56:05
  can say Aliyah was right. I think Aliyah was
• 56:07
  pointing out God in what he was saying and that's
• 56:12
  what he was doing. He was. Turn to John chapter
• 56:15
  12. Turn to John chapter 12 really quick because
• 56:18
  you're right. You are right, but I want to say
• 56:21
  this simultaneously with what you're about to
• 56:24
  say. You and I are always on the same stinking...
• 56:27
  I don't know how we do it. It's so crazy. Yeah,
• 56:30
  well we haven't rehearsed any of it, have we?
• 56:33
  No, if you go to John chapter 12, and if you
• 56:38
  remember, so in John chapter 11 he raises Lazarus
• 56:41
  from the dead, then the Pharisees and scribes
• 56:43
  want to kill Lazarus because he's famous all
• 56:46
  of a sudden and they're upset with Jesus about
• 56:48
  all this stuff. This is after the resurrection,
• 56:51
  okay? And let's see. All right, I want you to
• 56:57
  read, let me read it. I'm reading out the King
• 56:59
  James Version. John chapter 12 verse 23. Listen
• 57:01
  to this. Jesus answers then saying, the hour
• 57:04
  has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.
• 57:07
  Now this is after the resurrection of Lazarus,
• 57:09
  okay? Verily, verily, I say unto you, except
• 57:11
  a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die,
• 57:13
  it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth
• 57:15
  forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall
• 57:19
  lose it, and he that hateth his life in this
• 57:22
  world shall keep it unto life eternal. Notice
• 57:26
  he said love at this life shall lose it and he
• 57:28
  that hated his life in this world He didn't say
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  hate his life hate his life in this world Shall
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  keep it unto a life eternal if any man served
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  me let him follow me and where I am there shall
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  also my servant be if any man served me him will
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  my father honor now is my soul trouble and what
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  shall I say father save me from this hour but
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  for this cause came I unto this hour Father glorify
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  thy name then came there a voice from heaven
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  Saying I have both glorified it and will glorify
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  it again the people therefore that stood by and
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  heard it said that it thundered Mm -hmm and others
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  said an angel spake to him Jesus answered and
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  said this voice came not because of me, but for
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  your sakes Now is the judgment of this world
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  now shall the prince of this world be cast out
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  remember that Satan guy Remember the one I said
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  the job doesn't mention Listen with you listen
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  with Jesus says whenever the storm clouds speaks
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  when they think that it's thunder I want you
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  to notice what Jesus says Now is the judgment
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  of this world now shall the prince of this world
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  be cast out And I if I be lifted up from the
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  earth will draw all men unto me now That he's
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  talking about drawing unto him John chapter 3
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  when he talks to Nicodemus. That's exactly what
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  he says has to happen The son of man has to be
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  lifted up like the serpent was lifted up in the
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  wilderness and they went it out and they started
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  worshiping that ash or a pole later. That was
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  destroyed. But when I'm lifted up, all men will
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  be drawn into me and that prince of that world
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  is going to be cast out. And he says, if you
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  hate your life in this world, for my sake, then
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  you will go into life eternal. OK. Job is doing
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  the same thing. Guys job job is doing the same
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  thing. It's just on a microcosm level It's showing
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  it's like super zoomed out and you're looking
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  down at this little store and God's about to
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  speak now. He doesn't just say I Have glorified
• 59:29
  it and I will glorify it. He's getting ready
• 59:30
  to go for four chapters Hammering job and job
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  has to glared up his loins. You know, guess what
• 59:35
  guys? Jesus is always girded away already girded
• 59:39
  up his loins because Jesus is going to cast this
• 59:43
  devil out. And you know how he's going to do
• 59:45
  it? He's going to die on a cross through the
• 59:49
  ultimate suffering. And right before it, he's
• 59:51
  going to ask God to take that cup from him. But
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  God won't. But that's what a true servant of
• 59:56
  God does. So when he says, glorify your son,
• 1:00:01
  God speaks from an only people with a hard heart,
• 1:00:04
  in my opinion, who don't believe in who he is,
• 1:00:07
  hear thunder. But others are like, well, wait,
• 1:00:10
  I heard God in that. Exactly, exactly. The thing
• 1:00:14
  for me is though, Rick, with that one he says
• 1:00:15
  about, save me from this hour, I don't think
• 1:00:18
  he's asking God to save him from that hour. He
• 1:00:20
  says, now I am in turmoil. What can I say? Father,
• 1:00:24
  save me from this hour? Yeah, he's not asking
• 1:00:27
  God to save him. He's saying it in a hypothetical
• 1:00:29
  rhetorical way. He's like, no, I was made for
• 1:00:32
  this. Absolutely, absolutely. And that's the
• 1:00:36
  whole thing. Again, he talks about, like you
• 1:00:38
  said, being lifted up in the wilderness, as a
• 1:00:41
  serpent. Look at this. And again, the serpents
• 1:00:43
  were biting. And who did he call snakes and vipers?
• 1:00:46
  He called the religious leaders. So he says the
• 1:00:49
  religious leaders are biting you with false doctrine.
• 1:00:52
  You need to look to me when I'm lifted up. That's
• 1:00:56
  exactly what Job's friends are doing. That's
• 1:00:58
  what Job's friends are doing and that's what
• 1:01:00
  Eli who was pointing out about Job's friends
• 1:01:02
  He's angry with them at the first chapter when
• 1:01:03
  he speaks then he goes to Job afterwards, right?
• 1:01:07
  So Christ I think a lie who is both a John the
• 1:01:11
  Baptist and like you said a Christ figure Pointing
• 1:01:14
  out God who's gonna speak from that because it's
• 1:01:16
  not Jesus that's speaking from the cloud It's
• 1:01:18
  the father the Bible says that so Jesus in his
• 1:01:21
  man form and the father there's a distinction
• 1:01:23
  being made here I'm not saying be anti -trinitarian.
• 1:01:27
  I am a trinitarian. That's not what I mean. I'm
• 1:01:30
  saying in this state, this position, the storm
• 1:01:34
  cloud speaks. Elihu is like a John the Baptist.
• 1:01:39
  He's telling Job, get ready. But then when God
• 1:01:43
  comes in, he's like, you better get ready. Like
• 1:01:45
  now I'm here. Now I'm here and it's getting ready
• 1:01:48
  to happen. So you know what? Let's do this. Let's
• 1:01:50
  do this, Elaine. Let's close here. And I'll just
• 1:01:53
  go ahead and say this. today. Elaine, let's do
• 1:01:57
  a two -hour special and close out the Job study
• 1:01:59
  once and for all. We're going to go through the
• 1:02:02
  last chapters of this book and we're going to
• 1:02:04
  talk about what God says, then we're going to
• 1:02:07
  tie it up with a little tiny bow, and then I'm
• 1:02:10
  going to tell you that I've been working on a
• 1:02:12
  book of our study That we will release i don't
• 1:02:16
  think i'll have it ready by arkansas i'm gonna
• 1:02:18
  try elaine i'm gonna try to have it completed
• 1:02:20
  i have to send you the manuscript because mine
• 1:02:23
  and your name is gonna be on it together but
• 1:02:25
  it's from the words that we've said in the study
• 1:02:27
  and i hopefully i'll have the book ready. It's
• 1:02:31
  called how to become a high priest so far unless
• 1:02:34
  elaine doesn't like that title and then she can
• 1:02:35
  change it because she's fifty percent of this
• 1:02:37
  baby. So, whatever. Exactly. I love the way he
• 1:02:42
  turns around and says, I've entitled it this,
• 1:02:44
  this, unless Elaine doesn't. No, I wasn't even
• 1:02:46
  considered at all in the beginning. Oh, she didn't
• 1:02:49
  even know I was making a book. Actually, I think
• 1:02:50
  I told you I did work. Of course I know that
• 1:02:51
  you were doing that. You knew that part. Of course
• 1:02:54
  I did. But it's not just going to be, so the
• 1:02:57
  book isn't just like our words transliterated
• 1:03:02
  or transcribed onto a piece of paper like, you
• 1:03:05
  know, Gary DeMar and Kim Burgess did for the
• 1:03:07
  hope of Israel and the nations. This is going
• 1:03:09
  to be about what we spoke about and what we've
• 1:03:11
  come to understand about the book and the whole
• 1:03:14
  kind of the whole story. And so there's going
• 1:03:15
  to be some interesting, fun chapters. But I think
• 1:03:18
  that it's going to be a good guide. And my hope
• 1:03:21
  is that it's something that you can use for people
• 1:03:23
  who are dealing with grief, dealing with hardship.
• 1:03:26
  and show like how you can build a community around
• 1:03:29
  you and how you can have brothers and sisters
• 1:03:32
  even when you live in Spain and you're all alone
• 1:03:35
  or you live in the mountains of Western North
• 1:03:36
  Carolina after Hurricane Helene and everything
• 1:03:39
  has been going to hell in a handbasket and you
• 1:03:41
  can just reach it out hoping for people and you
• 1:03:43
  find them and then you also you know, it's about
• 1:03:46
  the ideas that that God made this world in a
• 1:03:52
  specific way and how Certain aspects of our lives
• 1:03:56
  are being used to bring us and draw us closer
• 1:03:59
  into a relationship with Almighty God And it's
• 1:04:01
  not just talk it's real it actually happens and
• 1:04:04
  he's done it with me and he's done it with Elaine
• 1:04:06
  And he's done it with some of you that have watched
• 1:04:09
  Absolutely. So yeah, we're gonna have a two -hour
• 1:04:12
  finale You know after we finish I think I'm gonna
• 1:04:17
  do a live Q &A with with Elaine's Do you say
• 1:04:22
  it again? Aye, aye, aye. I think I'm going to
• 1:04:25
  do it. Aye, aye, aye. Aye, aye, aye. Well, let's
• 1:04:28
  tell you what. Well, let me say it like this.
• 1:04:29
  Elaine, watch this. Elaine, I want you to set
• 1:04:32
  up that technology for me. I can't set that technology
• 1:04:36
  up. Aye, aye, aye. I can't do it, but I'm humbled
• 1:04:39
  that I can't do it. No, no, listen. We, I think
• 1:04:43
  that you and I should do a live Q &A. We need
• 1:04:48
  to pick a day that everybody could join us. Maybe
• 1:04:51
  it could be a Sunday early afternoon, like after
• 1:04:56
  church, but before a nighttime service or something,
• 1:04:58
  we can actually just sit down and talk to people.
• 1:05:00
  Well, as I say, for my brothers and sisters,
• 1:05:06
  I will stay up like till one in the morning if
• 1:05:09
  they can do it at seven at night or six at night.
• 1:05:11
  It'd be midnight for me. That's not a problem.
• 1:05:16
  I'm very thankful that we're closing out like
• 1:05:19
  Jobe. I'm very excited that we've stayed the
• 1:05:22
  course and got it done. I hope that you guys
• 1:05:24
  have enjoyed it as much as I have, but we are
• 1:05:27
  very excited about our next study. We've talked
• 1:05:30
  a little bit about it. We'll announce it. Maybe
• 1:05:33
  you and I, Elaine, once we finalize exactly what
• 1:05:35
  it is that we're doing, we can announce it on
• 1:05:37
  our finale. and then do a live Q &A about this
• 1:05:42
  book or anything. If anybody just wants to come
• 1:05:44
  on and share things about their life or and you
• 1:05:46
  guys can be invited on like, you know, if you
• 1:05:49
  want, we can have a zoom. We can do whatever.
• 1:05:51
  But I love all of you that have been here along
• 1:05:54
  the way, even if I hadn't heard from you in a
• 1:05:56
  while. Laurie Stone, Tracy Ferguson, Heather
• 1:05:59
  Ross, Tony Driver, Alan and Dina Thompson, Cherry,
• 1:06:04
  Chris Olson, Justin Nichols. There's been so
• 1:06:07
  many people, and if I didn't name your name,
• 1:06:09
  I'm sorry. So many of you guys. I'm sorry. Yeah,
• 1:06:15
  like Full Metal Preterist, Full Metal Preterist,
• 1:06:18
  Context Key, my friend Dawson Wylop and them
• 1:06:21
  guys, you know, Cheryl, Bobby and Cheryl Huddle.
• 1:06:27
  Just all of you, Patricia, you guys that are
• 1:06:30
  out in Texas, Eric O'Shea, Karen, all of you.
• 1:06:34
  that have been kinda in and out, poking in and
• 1:06:37
  out, out of this thing. And my darling friend
• 1:06:40
  in England, Karen, she listens. Karen, Karen,
• 1:06:44
  is her last name Grey? No. Oh. Well somebody
• 1:06:48
  named Karen had responded on something here on
• 1:06:51
  Patreon, maybe that was your friend, I don't
• 1:06:53
  know. No, no, her name's not Grey. Well, it wasn't
• 1:06:56
  Karen Grey, it was just some Karen person. But
• 1:06:59
  anyway, regardless, maybe I'll get to meet her
• 1:07:01
  when I'm in Spain at Christmas. You can come
• 1:07:04
  anytime. Christmas in Spain, we normally have
• 1:07:07
  Christmas in England. That's where I'm going.
• 1:07:09
  I want to go to England at Christmas, but I want
• 1:07:11
  to pop over to Spain to visit you. Absolutely.
• 1:07:14
  You can go whenever you like. Good. You're coming
• 1:07:17
  in August. Everybody that's coming to the Arkansas
• 1:07:20
  conference, you're going to get to meet Elaine
• 1:07:21
  in person. Do you know what? We've been looking
• 1:07:23
  into that. We're trying to find out, I think
• 1:07:25
  that I can go from Alicante to Lisbon, like Portugal,
• 1:07:28
  and then get a connecting flight to Charlotte.
• 1:07:31
  Because otherwise I'm gonna have to get a flight
• 1:07:33
  from Alicante to Madrid then go from Madrid to
• 1:07:36
  Charlotte Which is a totally not a waste of time
• 1:07:38
  But if you come to Charlotte, that would be a
• 1:07:40
  good thing because then pause if it's on a weekend
• 1:07:42
  Perhaps if you fly in on a Saturday, then we
• 1:07:45
  could go me Well, apparently that's supposed
• 1:07:46
  to be a really rubbish time to fly in it's best
• 1:07:49
  to fly in on a weekday like a Tuesday or Wednesday
• 1:07:51
  Well, apparently it's a rubbish time to fly into
• 1:07:54
  Charlotte ever. That's my worst It's one of the
• 1:07:57
  biggest airports in the world. I can't stand
• 1:07:59
  it. I hate that airport I get stuck. Yeah, you
• 1:08:03
  can fly into Asheville from Charlotte. You can
• 1:08:05
  just do a little changeover and fly directly
• 1:08:06
  to my house. I'm literally 10 minutes from here.
• 1:08:12
  Charlotte's only about an hour and a half from
• 1:08:13
  you, isn't it? It is. Yeah, but you said isn't
• 1:08:17
  there an airport close? Bend up your loins and
• 1:08:22
  drive down here and get me. Let me ask you questions
• 1:08:26
  and you can answer. Anyway guys thanks for watching
• 1:08:29
  us all along we're going to do a two -hour finale
• 1:08:31
  hopefully next week we'll get it done and then
• 1:08:34
  we'll do with Elaine's permission a live Q &A
• 1:08:38
  as well as we'll talk about the book a little
• 1:08:39
  bit more. Elaine and I actually have to have
• 1:08:41
  a nice talk about the book we haven't talked
• 1:08:42
  about it in a couple of months but we need to
• 1:08:44
  talk about it. It's almost done and I got to
• 1:08:47
  get it typeset and get ready for printing. And
• 1:08:49
  hopefully I can have that done before the Arkansas
• 1:08:51
  Conference. That will be wonderful. Again, for
• 1:08:56
  me as well, I mean, the link that, you know,
• 1:08:59
  looking at Job yourself, you don't get what we've
• 1:09:03
  got out of it, you know, when you link it with
• 1:09:05
  so many other scriptures, and you sort of like
• 1:09:08
  the mindset that you have, like in the New Testament
• 1:09:12
  with the apostles, the disciples and that you
• 1:09:14
  can just see the whole thing come into life.
• 1:09:17
  And it's amazing to, you know, all of us together
• 1:09:21
  have sort of been on this ride. And it really
• 1:09:25
  has been enlightening for me too. I think that
• 1:09:27
  should be something we should read every morning
• 1:09:29
  before we start our day. You know, stand up like
• 1:09:32
  a man, brace yourself, I'll ask you questions
• 1:09:34
  and you give me the answers. That's precursing.
• 1:09:37
  The things that we might actually do wrong during
• 1:09:39
  the day that we might have I'm telling you right
• 1:09:41
  now Like i'd be like whoops Whose door did I
• 1:09:47
  knock on? I think we should have that made up
• 1:09:50
  as a fridge magnet. Yeah gird up your loins and
• 1:09:54
  take it like a man Exactly. Yeah, and i'll ask
• 1:09:57
  you questions, right? All right. Well, we'll
• 1:09:59
  be back next week guys. Thanks for listening.
• 1:10:01
  Please leave your comments We love all of you.
• 1:10:04
  We do those of you who haven't heard or listened
• 1:10:06
  in a while, if you want to comment at the very
• 1:10:09
  end, then just do it. We're glad you're here.
• 1:10:11
  Even if you comment a month from now, but just
• 1:10:13
  so you know, we're not doing another recording
• 1:10:14
  after that one. We're done. We're done with Job.
• 1:10:17
  We'll probably talk about it again. We were done
• 1:10:20
  with going through Job, but I think it won't
• 1:10:22
  ever be done. We'll never be done with what we
• 1:10:24
  learned from Job, but we're going to be done
• 1:10:25
  with the study, the way in which we've been doing
• 1:10:27
  it. So lots of love to everybody. God bless you,
• 1:10:32
  Elaine. God bless you. We love you all. Thank
• 1:10:33
  you so much. God bless. God bless. That's her
• 1:10:48
  span, you're coming out in her. See? God bless
• 1:10:51
  you guys.