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The Mournful Wail of a Miserable Man, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: We all have our unguarded moments. We all have times
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Speaker 1: when we reach the end of our tether when the
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Speaker 1: clouds of doom seem greater than the sun of tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and our view is blocked, and out gushes how we
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Speaker 1: really feel.
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Speaker 2: Can a person of deep faith fall into deep depression?
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Speaker 2: Can someone who genuinely loves God reach a place so
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Speaker 2: dark they can't find their way out? Chuck swun Dahl
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Speaker 2: says yes, and he says the church has too often
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Speaker 2: been the last place to make that confession. Today, on
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Speaker 2: inside for living, Chuck brings this difficult journey home with
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Speaker 2: the word of grace. For anyone who's ever screamed at
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Speaker 2: the sky and wondered if God was listening, the answer
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Speaker 2: may surprise you. He not only listens, God can handle
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Speaker 2: everything you say. Chuck begins with prayer.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the reminder that your book is true,
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Speaker 1: that when you paint your servants, you paint them warts
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Speaker 1: and all. You do not hide from us their depression,
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Speaker 1: their doubts, their grief, even days so dark that some
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Speaker 1: wish they had never been born. And so today, while
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Speaker 1: in the midst of this study of a troubled heartbroken,
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Speaker 1: grieving life, this day, I pray that you will minister
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Speaker 1: in a deep way to some who are in that
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Speaker 1: kind of place at this time in their lives. You
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Speaker 1: would bring a sense of comfort and remind that there
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Speaker 1: isn't any pits so deep, but that you are deeper still.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the place of quietness we enjoy here,
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Speaker 1: freedom from the interruption of the enemy or the adversary.
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Speaker 1: Thank You for brave men and women who fight for
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Speaker 1: our cause in places that are hard to pronounce and
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Speaker 1: in locations marked by terror and danger. Take care of
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Speaker 1: them and watch over them, and because of them, give
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Speaker 1: us protection, sustain our liberty. Ours is a dark world,
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Speaker 1: one that's fallen and lost its way, And rather than
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Speaker 1: being smug and complacent in it, give us a passion
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Speaker 1: for those who can't find their way home. Give us
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Speaker 1: a sweet understanding of such a miserable situation, that we
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Speaker 1: might be for them a light in their darkness, and
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Speaker 1: hope in their hurt, and a rescue from their valley.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the sheer pleasure of the worship of You,
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Speaker 1: our Triune God. Find favor in the giving from motive
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Speaker 1: to action as we continue our worship in Jesus their
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Speaker 1: name and everyone said. Amen.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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Speaker 2: dot org slash offer Chuck title today's message the mournful
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Speaker 2: Wail of a Miserable Man.
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Speaker 1: Now, I need to warn you ahead of time as
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Speaker 1: we turn to the third chapter, this will not be
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Speaker 1: a pleasant sermon. This is not easy preaching. I don't
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Speaker 1: know of a person on earth that has ever said
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Speaker 1: Job three is their favorite chapter in the Bible. I
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Speaker 1: don't know of anyone who has ever memorized a verse
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Speaker 1: out of Job three. It's one of those chapters you
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Speaker 1: get to and you find yourself saying, well, let's see
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Speaker 1: what else there is in the book of Job. Surely
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Speaker 1: there's something, unless unless you have known the black hole
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Speaker 1: of depression yourself, and you read not with shock, but
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Speaker 1: you read nodding with understanding, because you've been there. Here,
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Speaker 1: the scabs are pulled from the sores, and the plus
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Speaker 1: of reality runs down Job's life. But the wonderful plan
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Speaker 1: of God is wonderful from his perspective, not yours and mine.
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Speaker 1: In fact, you say, as you go to bed at night, naked,
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Speaker 1: I came from my mother's womb naked. I shall return
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Speaker 1: the Lord gave the Lord has taken away. Blessed be
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Speaker 1: the name of the Lord. And you are the one
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Speaker 1: who says to your mate, shall we not accept good
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Speaker 1: from God? And also not accept adversity as well? And
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Speaker 1: in all this you don't send with your lips. The
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Speaker 1: same man who wrote that in chapters one and chapter
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Speaker 1: two wrote this in chapter three, And don't you doubt it,
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Speaker 1: the same man. And we don't want him to write
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Speaker 1: what he writes in chapter three because it doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like he's really walking with God. I mean, he has
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Speaker 1: the audacity to say at the end, I am not
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Speaker 1: at ease, I am not quiet, I am not at rest,
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Speaker 1: I am in turmoil. And we are given intes into
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Speaker 1: a slice of Job's life that is as real as
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Speaker 1: more testimonies who fill this room than any of us
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Speaker 1: would ever believe. Even the godly can be depressed. But
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Speaker 1: Job is hung out here for all to see. We
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Speaker 1: all have our unguarded moments. We all have times when
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Speaker 1: we reach the end of our tether, when the clouds
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Speaker 1: of doom seem greater than the sun of tomorrow, and
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Speaker 1: our view is blocked, and out gushes how we really feel,
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Speaker 1: and thankfully no one is there to hear. But with Job,
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Speaker 1: there were three friends who sat and stared and heard
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Speaker 1: every word and began to put together their thoughts so
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Speaker 1: they could set him straight as soon as they got
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Speaker 1: a chance to talk. How tragic. Allow me a couple
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Speaker 1: of somewhat technical comments. As we get underway, may I.
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Speaker 1: At this point in the Hebrew text, poetry begins. In
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Speaker 1: the prologue. Chapters one and two are written in prose,
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Speaker 1: just as they appear in your Bible, in a narrative form.
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Speaker 1: As you would pick up a novel to read it.
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Speaker 1: That's prose, as you would read a newspaper article that's prose.
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Speaker 1: It reads just like a book. But when you get
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Speaker 1: to chapter three in the Hebrew, you begin to read poetry,
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Speaker 1: and it appears in meter. It appears as poetry, and
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Speaker 1: that runs all the way through chapter forty two, verse six.
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Speaker 1: So the greater part of this book is poetry. That's
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Speaker 1: why the book falls in the category of the poetry
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Speaker 1: section of the Bible. It is mainly poetry. Now the
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Speaker 1: second little technical comment, Job's outburst. Get This is not
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Speaker 1: prompted mainly because of physical suffering. It's prompted because he's
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Speaker 1: lost touch with God. Major difference. He is miserable because
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Speaker 1: he's lost his best friend. How close he had been
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Speaker 1: with God when he got married to missus Job, How
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Speaker 1: happy their relationship was, meaning his in God's As the
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Speaker 1: first of the few children were conceived, and as the
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Speaker 1: babies were born, and as these seven boys and three
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Speaker 1: girls filled their home with laughter, how near God seemed
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Speaker 1: to him. And as the business grew and the caravans multiplied,
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Speaker 1: and the prophet began to come in, And as he
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Speaker 1: was blessed with the joy of prosperity, and as he
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Speaker 1: and God walked together in the cool of the evening,
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Speaker 1: how close God was Until that day everything broke loose.
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Speaker 1: Everything broke loose, and he lost camp, He lost a livestock,
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Speaker 1: he lost all of the animals, he lost home, he
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Speaker 1: lost all ten children, and he lost his health. And
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Speaker 1: worst of all, the heavens were brass, and God no
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Speaker 1: longer walked with him in the cool of the evening,
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Speaker 1: and God no longer came alongside to say, my son,
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Speaker 1: let me explain what this is all about. The devil
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Speaker 1: came and he dared me to do. And I want
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Speaker 1: you to know I'm trusting that he knew none of that.
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Speaker 1: You and I know all of that. He's never read
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Speaker 1: the first two chapters that Job, he's just living out
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Speaker 1: the result of the chapters, and he's reached the end
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Speaker 1: of his rope. This is the day you slam the
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Speaker 1: door shut. This is the day you say to those
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Speaker 1: even close to you, leave me alone. This is the
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Speaker 1: day in his life when he cannot find his friend,
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Speaker 1: his heavenly father. One man writes, the third chapter of
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Speaker 1: Job must be one of the most depressing chapters in
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Speaker 1: the Bible. While some might be as depressed as Job
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Speaker 1: was and use these verses to give vent to their feelings,
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Speaker 1: few sermons are made from this chapter. Few verses are
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Speaker 1: claimed as promises, and few are remembered for the warmth
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Speaker 1: of their sentiment. It is the lowest of several low
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Speaker 1: points in the book. Afterward, Job opened his mouth and
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Speaker 1: curse the day of his birth. Because you have patiently
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Speaker 1: set through my opening comments, you're not quite as shocked
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Speaker 1: as the novice would be who reads this and says, Aha,
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Speaker 1: there you go. Satan said he would curse God. Now
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Speaker 1: he doesn't. Wait, wait, wait, it may be poetry, but
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Speaker 1: let's read it accurately. He doesn't curse God. He curses
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Speaker 1: the day of his birth. There's a difference. There's a
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Speaker 1: difference to say, why was I ever born? Is much
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Speaker 1: different than saying I no longer believe in you God.
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Speaker 1: It's saying I am so totally and completely alone. I
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Speaker 1: regret that I ever drew breath. In fact, I regret
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Speaker 1: that I was ever conceived in the womb of my
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Speaker 1: mother Verses one to ten. He regrets his birth. Verses
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Speaker 1: eleven to nineteen. He wished he had been born dead.
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Speaker 1: Verses twenty through twenty six. He longs to die in
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Speaker 1: the sermon, as I said earlier, if you weren't depressed
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Speaker 1: when you started with me, you will be when I finish.
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Speaker 1: Just pause and remember the aftershock of what is included
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Speaker 1: in the word. Chapter three, verse one Afterward afterward, sitting
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Speaker 1: at the city dump head, shaved wife, wringing her hands,
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Speaker 1: three friends, sitting seven days and seven nights, staring, not
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Speaker 1: saying a word. Chapter two, verse thirteen, seeing the pain
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Speaker 1: was very great, after loss of all the children and
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Speaker 1: everything he held dear an ability to make a living
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Speaker 1: with sores running and scabs pulling loose from those sores.
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Speaker 1: After that, he opened his mouth and out came I
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Speaker 1: wish I had never been born. And that's not all
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Speaker 1: he said. If you like marking your Bibles, you will
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Speaker 1: have a field day with the words let and may
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Speaker 1: in verses three through nine. They appear over and over again.
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Speaker 1: These are called Jesse's jussive in the Hebrew. I call
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Speaker 1: them wish verbs. They are wish verbs. May this happen,
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Speaker 1: May that happen, Let this happen, Let that happen. Let
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Speaker 1: these things happen. And while I'm at it, let this
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Speaker 1: and let that. It's poetry, folks, it's poetry. Let the
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Speaker 1: day perish Verse four. May the day be darkness, Let
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Speaker 1: God above care not for it. Verse five. Let darkness
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Speaker 1: and black gloom claim it. Let a cloud settle on it.
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Speaker 1: Let the blackness of the day terrify it. Verse six.
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Speaker 1: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
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Speaker 1: Let it not come into the number of the months.
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Speaker 1: Take it out of the calendar. Forget my birthday. Let
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Speaker 1: that night be barren. Let no joyful shout enter it.
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Speaker 1: Let those curse it who cursed the day. Verse nine,
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Speaker 1: Let the stars of its twilight be dark, and let
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Speaker 1: all that happen for goodness sake, Job, what is it?
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Speaker 1: It is depression. I want none of this and call life.
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Speaker 1: And interestingly, suicide never enters his mind, never an attempt,
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Speaker 1: never a word about it, never a warning against it.
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Speaker 1: So far into the life of the faithful. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was interesting, while working through this wail to see
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Speaker 1: what he said in verse three. Not only does he
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Speaker 1: regret the day of his birth, he even regrets the conception.
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Speaker 1: Let the day perish on which I was born. And
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Speaker 1: in good poetic fashion, he returns even further and the night,
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Speaker 1: let it perish. When they said a boy is conceived
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Speaker 1: in a day of easy abortion, it isn't interesting that
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Speaker 1: he does not call the conception of the fetus tissue
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Speaker 1: or the massive protoplasm. He calls it a boy, because
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Speaker 1: life begins at conception, soon as the sperm enters the egg.
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Speaker 1: You have an a life, a life. And in those
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Speaker 1: days it was applauded by those in the patriarch era.
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Speaker 1: A boy, a boy, we'd have a boy, how wonderful. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: don't say that, says Job. At this age and stage
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Speaker 1: of his life. May that day be dark, obliterate it,
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Speaker 1: get rid of it. There's another part of this that
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Speaker 1: sort of fascinates me. When I get down in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the blackness of all of this, I come
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Speaker 1: across verse eight. Let those who let those curse it,
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Speaker 1: who curse the day by the way, that means Job
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Speaker 1: is probably not very experienced in cursing. So he offers
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Speaker 1: those who curse well to pick up the day of
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Speaker 1: his birth, and you take over who are prepared look
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Speaker 1: closely to rouse Leviathan. Now, I would say, you've rarely
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Speaker 1: used the word Leviathon in the last year or two
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Speaker 1: of your life. What in the world is Leviathon? Read
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Speaker 1: in your Webster's dictionary. This definition a sea monster represented
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Speaker 1: as an adversary, but it goes further back than the
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Speaker 1: More specifically, Leviathon was a seven headed sea monster of
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Speaker 1: ancient Near Eastern mythology in the Eugariitic literature of Canaan
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Speaker 1: and Phoenicia. In ancient days, eclipses were caused by Leviathons
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Speaker 1: coming out of the sea, swallowing the sun or the moon,
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Speaker 1: and therefore causing darkness to be cast on this earth.
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Speaker 1: As Leviath was roused from sleep in the sea, and
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Speaker 1: he swallowed up the sun or the moon. You say what,
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Speaker 1: and I say poetry. Say that's a great way to
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Speaker 1: handle this, isn't it. It's poetry. No, it's even more
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Speaker 1: than poetry. It's mythology. And if you travel to Turkey,
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Speaker 1: or if you travel to Greece and you have an
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Speaker 1: individual who was a native of that land, and you
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Speaker 1: are guided on a tour, you will hear more mythology
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Speaker 1: then you will hear theology. The mythology is the whole
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Speaker 1: basis of the gods of that land. And in ancient
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Speaker 1: patriarchal days it was still it was still a part
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Speaker 1: of that customer of that literature. And he picks up
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Speaker 1: the thought and says, oh, by while I met it,
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Speaker 1: let Leviathon swallow up the sun of the day make
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Speaker 1: it dark. Does Joe believe in mythology? Know anymore then
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Speaker 1: you or I believe in Santa Claus. When Christmas comes,
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Speaker 1: we may refer to something as prompting Santa to do
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Speaker 1: this or that. It's not that we believe in I
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Speaker 1: can't last Christmas. I got a card from a good
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Speaker 1: friend of mine, Paul Salehammer, he said, I just came across.
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Speaker 1: As he said, we go through four stages with Santa.
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Speaker 1: He said, first of all, we believe in him, and
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Speaker 1: second we don't believe in him, and third we are him,
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Speaker 1: and then fourth we look like him. That's all four
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Speaker 1: stages of Sata. And we joke about Santa, and we
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Speaker 1: have fun with a myth of that. So Job not
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Speaker 1: having fun, but referring to this ancient creature who will
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Speaker 1: return again in the poetry of this text, not here
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Speaker 1: but later. And while lamenting that he did not perish
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Speaker 1: at conception and grieving that he lived to see the
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Speaker 1: day of his birth, please notice another interesting comment made
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Speaker 1: in vers having said, why did I not die at birth,
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Speaker 1: come forth from the womb and expire? Why did the
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Speaker 1: knees receive me? Why the breasts that I should suck
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Speaker 1: the latter We understand the nursing of the mother, as
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Speaker 1: Job's mother nursed him, but the knees are curious. Some
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Speaker 1: say that it has reference to the passing of the child,
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Speaker 1: as the mother births the infant. It passes, if you will,
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Speaker 1: through the knees. But this says receive. It could be
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Speaker 1: a reference to the mother placing the infant on her
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Speaker 1: knees as she prepares to begin the nursing. It probably
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Speaker 1: better refers to the patriarchal process of a father being
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Speaker 1: given the infant shortly after birth. The child was placed
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Speaker 1: on the knees of the father and he would there
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Speaker 1: give it the family's blessing. If you ever saw the
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Speaker 1: television documentary Roots, you will remember the child being held
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Speaker 1: by the father as he holds the child up before
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Speaker 1: God and gives him to the Lord, if you will.
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Speaker 1: In their ancient customen in Africa, in this case, a
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Speaker 1: father would be given the infant and he would bless
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Speaker 1: the child as the infant was placed on the knees,
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Speaker 1: and Job says, why was I ever so blessed? Why
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Speaker 1: did those knees ever receive me? Why wasn't it a
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Speaker 1: corpse that they held in their hands? And then with
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Speaker 1: the thought of becoming a corpse? Ghoulish as it sounds,
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Speaker 1: he turns to the blessing of that as he describes
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Speaker 1: heaven thirteen through nineteen look closely for now, meaning had
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Speaker 1: I died, I would have been laid down and been quiet.
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Speaker 1: I would have slept then and I would have been
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Speaker 1: at rest. I would have been alongside kings and counselors
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Speaker 1: and princes verse fifteen, who had gold and filling their
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Speaker 1: houses with silver verse seventeen. There the wicked cease from raging.
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Speaker 1: That's true. In heaven. There the weary are at rest,
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Speaker 1: prisoners are at ease. They do not hear the voice
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Speaker 1: of the taskmaster, the small and the greater there, and
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Speaker 1: the slave is free from his master. It's a beautiful
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Speaker 1: picture of peace and solemnity and ease. And he said, oh,
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Speaker 1: that could have been my lot, but I lived, and
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Speaker 1: I've lost it all. And as a result verse twenty four.
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Speaker 1: He takes us to his everyday experience. My groaning calms
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Speaker 1: at the sight of my food. My cries pour out
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Speaker 1: like water. When someone served him a simple meal, he groaned.
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Speaker 1: The Hebrew word means to shriek ah. He get away.
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Speaker 1: I have no interest in anything to eat. The man,
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Speaker 1: along with the suffering of the sickness, is now starving,
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Speaker 1: and his cries come like water poured out. He speaks
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Speaker 1: of his fears in verse twenty five and is dread
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Speaker 1: The things I dreaded have fallen upon me. This may
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Speaker 1: have reference to those days when he was prosperous and
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Speaker 1: life was good, and he in unguarded moments wondered if
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Speaker 1: they would remain that. And my worst fears have been realized,
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Speaker 1: and now dread has fallen upon me. I am not
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Speaker 1: at ease, I am not quiet, I am not at rest.
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Speaker 1: I'm full of turmoil. End of speech. His friends are nearby,
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Speaker 1: staring him down, analyzing him from their vantage point of
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Speaker 1: good health, and beginning there sermons if you will, as
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Speaker 1: they will soon rebuke him because he's getting what he deserves.
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Speaker 1: If you can imagine, did you in years past happen
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Speaker 1: to see the Elephant Man? I think many of us did.
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Speaker 1: Wonderful film, a film not for children, but a film
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Speaker 1: with an adult theme about a man who struggled with
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Speaker 1: a disease that result in a deforming and defacing of
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Speaker 1: his of his person. And the head is enlarged and
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Speaker 1: a thick, callous like skin replaces the smooth skin that
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Speaker 1: we have, and he looks like, if you will, a
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Speaker 1: sideshow freak, but he is a great man deep inside.
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Speaker 1: And he's treated like a like a man who's escaped
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Speaker 1: from a circus. And there's a tragic scene where he's
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Speaker 1: running from the crowd as cameras are flashing and people
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Speaker 1: are grabbing at him, and he finds his way to
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Speaker 1: a railway station and races down steps to get away,
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Speaker 1: and finally winds up in the latrine, the soiled place
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Speaker 1: of this public station, and they pour into that place
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Speaker 1: and they're flashing their cameras, and right at the zenith
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Speaker 1: of the film, he struggles to get the words out,
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Speaker 1: I am a human being. You can hear a pin
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Speaker 1: drop in the theater. I hear Job at that level
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Speaker 1: at the end, Oh God, where are you?
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Speaker 2: I am a human being? Four words from a forgotten film,
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Speaker 2: Yet they echo the cry of every soul who is
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Speaker 2: ever felt invisible in their suffering. Job's anguish wasn't weakness.
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Speaker 2: It was the raw, unfiltered voice of a man crying
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Speaker 2: out from the depths of his humanity. Oh God, where
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Speaker 2: are you? Chucks Wendall will bring this moving study to
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Speaker 2: its conclusion next time on Insight for Living. It's titled
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Speaker 2: The Mournful Wail of a Miserable Man. Meanwhile, we invite
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Speaker 2: you to explore the resources that Chuck is prepared to
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Speaker 2: accompany this series. Here at Insight for Living, we provide
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Speaker 2: companion resources for every study Chuck presents and this series
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Speaker 2: is no different. For instance, Chuck wrote a practical book
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Speaker 2: that pairs naturally with his study. The book is titled
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Speaker 2: Finding God when the World's on Fire. It's available right
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Speaker 2: now at insight dot org slash donate in a suffering
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Speaker 2: has a way of stripping away every answer we thought
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Speaker 2: we had, the tidy theology, the confident prayers, the assumption
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Speaker 2: What do you do with grief that's too big for words?
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