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Reassuring Hope for the Assaulted and Abused, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: When everything is stripped away, the relationships, the reputation, the resources,
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  Speaker 1: what do you hold on to? Job had lost it all,
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  Speaker 1: and the people closest to him only made it worse.
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  Speaker 1: But somewhere beneath the rubble of his suffering, Job found something,
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  Speaker 1: a conviction so fierce, so unshakable, that he wanted it
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  Speaker 1: carved in stone for every generation to read. Today on
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  Speaker 1: Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll shows us what it looks
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  Speaker 1: like when hope refuses to die. Chuck titled his message,
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  Speaker 1: Reassuring Hope for the Assaulted and Abused.
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  Speaker 2: Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Faithful are the wounds,
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  Speaker 2: trustworthy are the bruises caused by the wounding of one
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  Speaker 2: who loves you. The Hebrew reads, trustworthy are the bruises
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  Speaker 2: caused by the wounding of one who loves you, but
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  Speaker 2: deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. You've been kissed
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  Speaker 2: by a deceitful enemy lately? Isn't pleasant. When you find
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  Speaker 2: out that it was deceitful, the kisses didn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 2: How much better to have a faithful reprover who loves
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  Speaker 2: us too much than to let us get away with wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Don't resist reproof, men and women. If the reproof comes
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  Speaker 2: from the right person in the right way for the
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  Speaker 2: right motive, take it. Be grateful for it. It's trustworthy.
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  Speaker 2: That's why growing up in the right kind of home
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  Speaker 2: is so wonderful. Your moms and dads, reprove. The best
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  Speaker 2: and most consistent reproofs many of us ever got came
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  Speaker 2: from faithful moms and dads. who corrected us when they
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  Speaker 2: saw us doing wrong and sometimes spanked us and didn't
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  Speaker 2: let us get away with being ugly or impudent or
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  Speaker 2: deceitful or brutal in our behavior. Let me show you
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  Speaker 2: how the tongue can, on the other hand, become a
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  Speaker 2: deadly thing. Look at the next book to the right,
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  Speaker 2: Psalm number 57. David is writing this as he's fleeing
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  Speaker 2: from Saul, which went on for 12 years or so.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine that. Now stay with me. We got a point
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  Speaker 2: I want to make here. Like all good preachers, it
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  Speaker 2: takes me a while to make the point. So stay
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  Speaker 2: with me there. Look at 57.4. My soul is among lions.
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  Speaker 2: I must lie among those who breathe forth fire, even
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  Speaker 2: the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows
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  Speaker 2: and their tongue a sharp Sword, sword thrusts, shoved in, twists,
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  Speaker 2: shoved in, twisted. That's abusive. That's assaulting people with our tongues.
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  Speaker 2: David had been the target of that. Look at 64,
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  Speaker 2: Psalm 64. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint.
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  Speaker 2: Preserve my life from dread of the enemy. Hide me
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  Speaker 2: from the secret counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of
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  Speaker 2: those who do iniquity. Look at their description. Who have
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  Speaker 2: sharpened their tongue like a sword, and they aimed bitter
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  Speaker 2: speech as their arrow to shoot from concealment at the blameless.
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  Speaker 2: This hurts maybe most of all, to be attacked in secret,
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Things are said against us, and not
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  Speaker 2: only do we not know, we don't even realize the
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  Speaker 2: impact that it's having on people who once believed in us.
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  Speaker 2: But the sword thrusts are going on. That's a wrong
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  Speaker 2: kind of use of the tongue. Look at Proverbs 12.
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  Speaker 2: One more book to the right. Proverbs 12, verse 18.
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  Speaker 2: There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of
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  Speaker 2: a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
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  Speaker 2: There's the difference. Good reproof brings healing. Initially it hurts,
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  Speaker 2: ultimately it heals. How good it is when we have
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  Speaker 2: friends close enough to us to put their arms around
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  Speaker 2: us and warn or correct or point out an area
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  Speaker 2: of that is getting out of control or out of line.
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  Speaker 2: I can't let you leave Proverbs without another quick glance. 15.4,
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  Speaker 2: a soothing tongue is a tree of life, but perversion
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  Speaker 2: in it crushes the spirit. Crushes the spirit. There's another proverb,
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  Speaker 2: like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is
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  Speaker 2: a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. Proverbs 25, 11,
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  Speaker 2: and 12. Now, back to Job, my point. Bildad blamed
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  Speaker 2: Job because he saw Job as sinful. And what he
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  Speaker 2: was going through was the consequences of wrong. Job realized
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  Speaker 2: there was no sin he hadn't confessed. So he saw
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  Speaker 2: what he was going through as a mystery. And when
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  Speaker 2: you add the silence of God and the distance from
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  Speaker 2: God that he felt, it became unbearable, which explains his,
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  Speaker 2: at times, losing control and those men would not cut
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  Speaker 2: him any slack. In my preparation, I came across a
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  Speaker 2: fine little piece called, Are You a Builder? I saw
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  Speaker 2: them tearing a building down, a group of men in
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  Speaker 2: a busy town. With a hefty blow and a lusty yell,
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  Speaker 2: they swung with zest and a side wall fell. Asked
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  Speaker 2: of the foreman, are these men skilled, the kind you
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  Speaker 2: would hire if you had to build? He looked at
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  Speaker 2: me and laughed. No, indeed, unskilled labor is all I need. Why,
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  Speaker 2: they can reckon a day or two what it has
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  Speaker 2: taken builders years to do. I asked myself as I
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  Speaker 2: went my way, which of these roles have I tried
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  Speaker 2: to play? Am I a builder with rule and square,
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  Speaker 2: measuring and constructing with skill and care? Or am I
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  Speaker 2: a wrecker who walks the town content with the business
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  Speaker 2: of tearing down? By the way, which are you? You
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  Speaker 2: a builder? You a builder? None of the friends of
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  Speaker 2: Job qualifies as a builder. They're all wreckers. It's all
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  Speaker 2: a matter of perspective if they had only realized that
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  Speaker 2: much of the will of God is mysterious. If only
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  Speaker 2: they could have imagined there's got to be something that
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  Speaker 2: we don't grasp. Job's life lines up. This is not logical.
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  Speaker 2: There's something unusual happening here. God's up to something great.
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  Speaker 2: And we must comfort our friend as he goes through
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  Speaker 2: this great trial for whatever reason God has. And just
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  Speaker 2: admit they didn't know why. You know, just to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Just to understand. Just show grace. Cynthia and I arrived
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  Speaker 2: at a wedding yesterday here at the church. We were
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  Speaker 2: almost late and had a minute or two to get inside.
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  Speaker 2: On our way over, my coat had fallen from the
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  Speaker 2: back seat to the floorboard. And we parked back here,
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  Speaker 2: the back parking lot, and I got a little close
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  Speaker 2: to the curb. And so I'm standing on the curb,
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  Speaker 2: getting in the back of the car to get my coat.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm in a hurry because I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be late. And so I grab the coat and boom,
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  Speaker 2: I stand up and I hit my head, right? You
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  Speaker 2: want to see that right there? There's a knot about
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  Speaker 2: that big right there on my head. And I, you know, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I tend to be a little dramatic at times. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's nobody around and my dear wife is
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  Speaker 2: standing there and And I really did. I thought, man,
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  Speaker 2: this brought blood. I'm convinced. And I closed the door
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  Speaker 2: and she walks over and she was so gracious. She
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  Speaker 2: was just so, you know, it was wonderful. She didn't
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  Speaker 2: do this. You coming? She didn't do that. She walked
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  Speaker 2: over and time was forgotten by her. And it was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why this happened, but what a time
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  Speaker 2: for it to happen. And I care about what happened,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to be here. And I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell you, that just spoke volumes to me. We went
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  Speaker 2: into the wedding, and as I watched the wedding and
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  Speaker 2: listened to the vows and saw this sweet couple standing here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they've never been married before, okay? So they
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  Speaker 2: don't know what's coming. And that's good. That's good. They'll
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  Speaker 2: never be thinner or more ignorant of life than right then.
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  Speaker 2: And it's innocence. It's beautiful. It's as it ought to be.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there. You know what? I'm thinking, as
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  Speaker 2: my head is pounding, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, well, I
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  Speaker 2: hope they really will have this kind of grace, because
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  Speaker 2: I knew what was coming today and what Bildad and
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  Speaker 2: Zophar and Eliphaz missed by a mile. It's just so
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  Speaker 2: valuable in a marriage. Some of you are no longer
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  Speaker 2: married because you were abused by a partner. You were mistreated.
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  Speaker 2: You longed to have an understanding hug. And you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: continue as it was. Some of you are abusing in
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  Speaker 2: your marriage. I don't know who you are. But I
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  Speaker 2: know in a group this large, it's going on. And
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  Speaker 2: you say, well, I've never laid a hand. No, it's
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  Speaker 2: not that. It's a verbal abuse. It's ugly comments. It's
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  Speaker 2: insults and slams to the mat and sarcasm, put-downs. You
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  Speaker 2: don't realize. I don't think Bildad sat on the edge
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  Speaker 2: of his bed that morning thinking, let's see, how can
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  Speaker 2: I possibly insult him more now than I did before?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it worked like that. I don't believe that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it just got worse and worse as they talked,
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  Speaker 2: like an abuser. And that's why this is preserved for us.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever is written in earlier times, Romans 15, 4 says,
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  Speaker 2: written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort
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  Speaker 2: from the scriptures might have hope. Listen to this. Bildad
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  Speaker 2: lives and Job lives. and they both may live under
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  Speaker 2: the same roof. Job calls it tormenting and crushing and
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  Speaker 2: insulting and wronging. He talks about the distance there is
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  Speaker 2: from God. Verse 7, I cry, violence, and I get
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  Speaker 2: no answer. I shout, help, and there's no justice. Heavens
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  Speaker 2: are brass. That great God that once talked with me
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  Speaker 2: has walled up my way that I cannot pass. The
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  Speaker 2: path is dark that once was lit. Your heart goes
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  Speaker 2: out to this man. He has stripped my honor from me.
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  Speaker 2: I was once listened to in the gate. Now I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting at the trash heap as the dogs root around
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  Speaker 2: me for food. And the excrement of this land is
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  Speaker 2: all about me. This is awful. Not only is God silent,
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  Speaker 2: the others who were once close are now absent. They
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  Speaker 2: resist me. Look at the list, verse 13. My brother
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  Speaker 2: is far from me. My acquaintance is completely estranged. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have any real friends that come around. My relatives
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  Speaker 2: have failed. My intimate friends have forgotten me. Look at
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  Speaker 2: the list. Maid, servant, verse 17. Even my breath is
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  Speaker 2: offensive to my wife. I'm loathsome to my own brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Even young children despise me. And my associates abhor me.
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  Speaker 2: Those I love have turned against me. You build that. You, Zophar, you, Eliphaz,
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  Speaker 2: and before you even speak, you, Elihu, I've loved you men,
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  Speaker 2: and you've turned against me. It's tragic. And then he
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  Speaker 2: pauses and says, oh, I have hope beyond all of this.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, so significant is my hope. Look at verse 23.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Oh, that my words were written. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that they were inscribed in a book of Better than that,
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  Speaker 2: that they, with an iron stylus and lead, they were
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  Speaker 2: engraved in the rock forever, drilled, etched into granite so
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  Speaker 2: that people through time could read. He thought his words
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  Speaker 2: would be forgotten. When I read that, I thought of
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  Speaker 2: our 16th president. On the 19th of November, 1863, he
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  Speaker 2: stood at Gettysburg, bloated bodies popping in the heat of
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  Speaker 2: the sun, It died by the scores at Gettysburg. And
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  Speaker 2: he stood with this simple little speech written on a
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  Speaker 2: piece of paper he had brought with him, written by hand.
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  Speaker 2: The world will little note nor long remember what I
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  Speaker 2: said here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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  Speaker 2: I thought when I read that yesterday, oh, Mr. Lincoln,
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  Speaker 2: we'll never forget what you said. Most of us can't
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  Speaker 2: remember what you did there. Soldiers, but we'll never forget
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  Speaker 2: your speech. Job, it's going in the book. Job, it's
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  Speaker 2: in the book. It's along with Psalm 23 and Romans 8.
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  Speaker 2: In Revelation 22, in Genesis 3, Job 19, 25, I
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  Speaker 2: know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He
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  Speaker 2: shall stand upon this earth. Even after my skin is destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: yet from my flesh I shall see God. I shall
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  Speaker 2: see Him myself. My own eyes shall see Him, not another.
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  Speaker 2: There will be a resurrection. There will be a changed world.
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  Speaker 2: I will come back. Oh, that my words would be remembered.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, when Handel writes his magnum opus, he
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  Speaker 2: gives this to the soprano and has her sing it.
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  Speaker 2: And every Christmas we hear it over again and again. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my Redeemer lives. I know he lives. And I think,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Lord, for preserving Job's hope for every generation
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  Speaker 2: through time. Let me tell you who are on the
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  Speaker 2: side of Job today. And your God is quiet and
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  Speaker 2: distant and silent. And your friends may have begun to
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  Speaker 2: turn against you. Let me tell you, the end of
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  Speaker 2: the book has got a great chapter. In the end,
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  Speaker 2: God wins. Right rules. And the Zophars and the Bildads
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  Speaker 2: and the Eliphazes and the Elihus will be forgotten. His
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  Speaker 2: conclusion is eloquent. Be afraid of the sword for yourselves, friends.
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  Speaker 2: Wrath brings the punishment of the sword so that you
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  Speaker 2: may know there is judgment. After this burst of hope,
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  Speaker 2: 23 through 27, he turns to Bildad with renewed strength
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  Speaker 2: and he says, you need to know something. Judgment's not
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  Speaker 2: coming my way. It's coming yours. Two lasting lessons live on.
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  Speaker 2: as I complete these two chapters today. The first one
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  Speaker 2: is about hope and the second one is about assurance.
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  Speaker 2: There is nothing like hope, there is nothing like hope
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  Speaker 2: in the truth to clarify perspective and to keep us going.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing like hope in the truth to clarify perspective
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  Speaker 2: and to keep us going. Some of you are having
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  Speaker 2: trouble going on and continuing In your lot, I assure you,
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  Speaker 2: your embracing the truth will give you the hope you need,
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  Speaker 2: even hope that you're not getting from those closest to you.
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  Speaker 2: The second lesson is that there is nothing like lack
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  Speaker 2: of assurance to haunt our steps and make us afraid.
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  Speaker 2: If you are without the Lord Jesus Christ, let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you, your steps are being haunted. And when the
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  Speaker 2: lights are out and your head has sunk into the
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  Speaker 2: pillow for another night, you hope you make it through alive.
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  Speaker 2: Not knowing where you would be if you died, let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you, that is treacherous. And the worst part,
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  Speaker 2: if you die without Christ, judgment is there. It is
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  Speaker 2: appointed unto us once to die and after death, the judgment.
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  Speaker 2: To have peace, you need to know where you're going.
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  Speaker 2: I have a thing about giving our money while we're alive.
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  Speaker 2: You're giving while you're living, then you're knowing where it's going,
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  Speaker 2: I often say. Be sure you're believing right when you're living,
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  Speaker 2: because when you die, there's no second chance to decide.
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  Speaker 2: It's haunting not to be sure where you're going. Billy
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  Speaker 2: Graham was invited several years ago to speak at the elegant...
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  Speaker 2: Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. I have a
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  Speaker 2: friend who was there who heard him and he told
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  Speaker 2: me later that Graham had apparently had a little trouble
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  Speaker 2: getting there transportation-wise and he did finally make it, I
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  Speaker 2: think a little bit late for the meeting and when
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  Speaker 2: he stood up to speak he told a true story
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  Speaker 2: of Albert Einstein who was taking a train to the
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  Speaker 2: big city And the ticket taker came by to gather
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  Speaker 2: the tickets. And when he got to the great thinker,
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  Speaker 2: he waited for his ticket. He began to search for
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  Speaker 2: his ticket and he could not find it. And the
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  Speaker 2: ticket taker noticed who he was, this brilliant physicist. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, oh, Dr. Einstein, don't worry. We trust you.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have a ticket. That's fine. And he
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  Speaker 2: left and went on. And about 20 minutes later, he
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  Speaker 2: was coming back through the car again. And he noticed
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  Speaker 2: that Einstein was on his hands and knees, still looking
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  Speaker 2: around for his ticket. And he said, no, please get up.
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  Speaker 2: He said, we trust you. And Einstein turned around and
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  Speaker 2: looked up and said, young man, This isn't a matter
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  Speaker 2: of trust, but direction. I'm searching for a ticket because
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where I'm going. Do you really know
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  Speaker 2: where you're going? Do you really know that? Is a
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  Speaker 2: destination guaranteed? Amazing. Bill Dad talked to the wrong man
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  Speaker 2: with the wrong motive. But, uh, He had a message
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  Speaker 2: for some other person, maybe you. And in that case,
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  Speaker 2: motive fits. There's reason to be concerned. I'd like us
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  Speaker 2: to bow our heads just for a few moments. Just
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  Speaker 2: sit quietly there in this comfortable place. No one will
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  Speaker 2: disturb you. You're alone with your thoughts. Job lives. People
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  Speaker 2: in tragic circumstances once stood at their kitchen window and thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it may not always be great as it
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  Speaker 2: is right now. And they lived to see the truth
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  Speaker 2: of their words, just as Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld became
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  Speaker 2: actually transformed into a Secretary of War, though his words
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  Speaker 2: seemed only a theoretical prediction at first. There's nothing theoretical about...
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  Speaker 2: Life may not continue as you've known it. It just
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  Speaker 2: may be that hard times are right ahead, especially for you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. If I knew for sure, I'd pull
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  Speaker 2: you aside and warn you. If I had known in
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  Speaker 2: Job's place, I would have told him about chapters 1
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  Speaker 2: and 2. But the mystery unfolded, and you know the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the story. I invite you to the Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, to the cross where the payment was made
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  Speaker 2: in full for the sins of your life. And I
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  Speaker 2: must tell you, that is the only ticket that will
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  Speaker 2: guarantee your destination. That's the only way you'll know that
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  Speaker 2: you're on your way to heaven. Not by what you
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  Speaker 2: have done, but by believing in what Christ has done,
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  Speaker 2: your destination is assured. We often say, by faith alone,
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  Speaker 2: in Christ alone. This is the assurance that God has
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  Speaker 2: given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
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  Speaker 2: He who has the Son, S-O-N, the Son of God,
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  Speaker 2: has the life. He who does not have the Son
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  Speaker 2: does not have the life. We're grateful, our Father, for
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  Speaker 2: words such as we have heard In many ways, they
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  Speaker 2: are warnings for us all. They are preparatory words that
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  Speaker 2: seem today like a distant prediction, but could very well,
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  Speaker 2: in a matter of hours, days, become a reality. Certainly
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  Speaker 2: for those without Christ, we pray today that you will
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  Speaker 2: bring to them the all-important question of, what will I
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  Speaker 2: do with Jesus Christ? And turn them, our Father, in
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  Speaker 2: their hearts, deep within, to your Son. And bring with them,
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  Speaker 2: at that moment, a peace they've never known before. Until then,
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  Speaker 2: I pray that you would continue the restlessness and the
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  Speaker 2: uneasiness and the sleepless nights and the haunting reminders that
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  Speaker 2: death is sure and judgment is real. Now unto him
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  Speaker 2: who is able to guard us from stumbling and present
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  Speaker 2: us who know him as faultless in his own presence
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  Speaker 2: with exceeding great glory to the only wise God, our Savior,
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  Speaker 2: be glory and majesty, dominion and power this day and forevermore.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Christ, all God's people said, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Hope that refuses to die, even when everything around you
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  Speaker 1: has collapsed. That's the legacy of Job, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: message Chuck Swindoll has shared with us today on Insight
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  Speaker 1: loss or living under the weight of words that wound,
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  Speaker 1: we hope this study has brought you genuine comfort and
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  Speaker 1: renewed confidence in the one who never forgets your name.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled his message, Reassuring Hope for the Assaulted and Abused.
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  Speaker 1: You've just heard Chuck walk us through one of the
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  Speaker 1: darkest seasons in the Bible. Job, assaulted, abused, abandoned. His
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  Speaker 1: friends came to comfort him and crushed him instead. God
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  Speaker 1: seemed silent. The heavens felt like brass. And yet, from
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  Speaker 1: the ash heap came these words, I know that my
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  Speaker 1: Redeemer lives. That's a man who found God when his
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  Speaker 1: world was on fire. And friend, you may be sitting
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  Speaker 1: there today in your own ash heap. Words have wounded you.
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  Speaker 1: circumstances have overwhelmed you, and God feels very, very far away.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck's book, Finding God When the World's on Fire, was
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