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Making Choices Under Pressure Pt. 2 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. We're talking this week about making choices under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Are you facing some pressure in your life right now
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  Speaker 1: that's really stressing you out, causing distress to you as
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  Speaker 1: you think about it? I know about that. Probably every
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  Speaker 1: person in the world knows what it's like to feel
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  Speaker 1: that stress and pressure.
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  Speaker 1: That sense of inadequacy and uncertainty about the future or
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  Speaker 1: even the pain of things that are already happening that
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  Speaker 1: are causing great
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  Speaker 1: Discomfort and pain, whether physical or emotional in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at the book of Job and uh trying
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  Speaker 1: to learn from him as he faced enormous stresses in
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  Speaker 1: his life about this idea of making choices under pressure
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  Speaker 1: that are the right choices. We saw last week that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Satan came to God and said, Oh, Job only serves
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  Speaker 1: you because you make everything good for him. Your blessing
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  Speaker 1: is life. But if you were to take those things away.
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  Speaker 1: Then he'd curse you, and God said, OK, Satan.
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  Speaker 1: Go to it. You can't touch Job, but touch all
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  Speaker 1: of his things if you want. Here's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Starting in Job chapter 1 verse 13, now it happened
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  Speaker 1: on the day when Job's sons and his daughters were
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  Speaker 1: eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house that
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  Speaker 1: a messenger came to Job and said the oxen were
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  Speaker 1: ploughing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabians
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  Speaker 1: attacked and took them. They also slew the servants with
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped
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  Speaker 1: to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
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  Speaker 1: the fire of God fell from heaven and burned up
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  Speaker 1: the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I
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  Speaker 1: alone have escaped to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: While he was still speaking, another also came and said
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  Speaker 1: the Chaldeans formed 3 bands and made a raid on
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  Speaker 1: the camels and took them and slew the servants with
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped
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  Speaker 1: to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: And while he was still speaking, another also came and
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  Speaker 1: said
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  Speaker 1: Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine
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  Speaker 1: in their oldest brother's house.
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  Speaker 1: And behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: and struck the four corners of the house.
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  Speaker 1: And it fell on the young people.
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  Speaker 1: And they died
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  Speaker 1: And I alone have escaped to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Then Job arose.
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  Speaker 1: And tore his robe. That was a sign of incredible
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  Speaker 1: distress and grief.
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  Speaker 1: He tore his robe and shaved his head.
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  Speaker 1: And he fell to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: and worshipped
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  Speaker 1: And he said
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  Speaker 1: Naked I came from my mother's womb.
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  Speaker 1: And naked I will return there.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord gave.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord has taken away.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Through all this Job did not sin.
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  Speaker 1: Nor did he blame God.
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  Speaker 1: Well,
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  Speaker 1: Here we have this pile of bad bad awful circumstances
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  Speaker 1: one after another just mounting up. You can imagine the
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  Speaker 1: impact of each one on Job all that he had
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  Speaker 1: carefully built up in his business.
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  Speaker 1: Crumbling around him and then his own kids.
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  Speaker 1: Dying in that house.
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  Speaker 1: What could Job do? He worshipped God. It seems almost incomprehensible,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it? If he'd believed in luck and not in God,
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  Speaker 1: he would have responded really differently.
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  Speaker 1: Even those who believe in God can question and crack
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  Speaker 1: under the pressure.
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  Speaker 1: In the midst of tragedy we still have a choice.
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  Speaker 1: To react just as a human being or to react
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  Speaker 1: as a spiritual being who has a God that he trusts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.