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Another Long-Winded Monologue, Part 3 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: God authors it all. He is transcendent. He is magnificent.
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  Speaker 1: He is mighty.
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  Speaker 2: He is gigantic. Without him, there is no righteousness. There
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  Speaker 2: is no holiness. There is no ability to change. There
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  Speaker 2: is no truth.
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  Speaker 3: Sooner or later, every one of us comes to the
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  Speaker 3: edge of our own understanding. We've asked our questions, weighed
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  Speaker 3: our answers, and still the mystery of God remains just
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  Speaker 3: beyond our reach. Well, today on Insight for Living, Chuck
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  Speaker 3: Swindoll brings us to the close of a very long
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  Speaker 3: conversation between Job and his insufferable friends. As he describes
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  Speaker 3: their long-winded conversation, Chuck helps us trade our small, manageable
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  Speaker 3: ideas about God for a vision of his true majesty
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  Speaker 3: and might. Let's begin with these helpful highlights from the
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  Speaker 3: book of Job.
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  Speaker 1: Elihu's not a learner.
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  Speaker 2: Elihu's busy with that long index finger bouncing against the
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  Speaker 2: sternum of Job. And probably never himself had one boil.
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  Speaker 2: Job's covered with them. Don't be the Pope, Elihu.
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  Speaker 1: Learn from this man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the first speech he begins in chapter 32 and
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  Speaker 2: ends it at the end of chapter 33.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a couple of things in it I think
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  Speaker 1: are worth mentioning.
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  Speaker 2: He speaks first to all the men, verses 6 to 14.
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  Speaker 2: Then he speaks to Job and finally gets to his point.
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  Speaker 2: Takes him forever, but he finally gets to a point,
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  Speaker 2: verse 13 of chapter 33.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you complain against him? H is capitalized. appropriately,
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  Speaker 1: it refers to God, Job. Why do you complain against.
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  Speaker 2: God that he does not give an account of all
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  Speaker 2: his doings?
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, God speaks.
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  Speaker 2: Once or twice, yet no one notices it. So he's
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  Speaker 2: saying God speaks in a couple of ways. First, verse 15,
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  Speaker 2: in a dream or a vision. If you like marking
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  Speaker 2: your Bible, put a little one there. That's the first.
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  Speaker 1: Way God speaks, at least he did in those days.
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  Speaker 2: And put a little too by verse 19. Man is
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  Speaker 2: also chastened with pain on his bed.
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  Speaker 1: God speaks when you're sick. When you're laid aside with
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  Speaker 1: unceasing complaint.
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  Speaker 2: In his bones describing the pain of life so that
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  Speaker 2: his life loathes bread and his soul favored food. His
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  Speaker 2: flesh wastes away from sight and his bones which were
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  Speaker 2: not seen stick out it's a picture of going hungry
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  Speaker 2: and and being so sick you don't even want to
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  Speaker 2: eat then his soul draws near to the pit thinks
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  Speaker 2: he's going to die and his life to those who
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  Speaker 2: bring death then he refers to a very interesting observation
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  Speaker 2: a mediating angel.
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  Speaker 1: Now look closely.
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  Speaker 2: He says, God speaks in a dream and a vision
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  Speaker 2: in the night, verse 15.
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  Speaker 1: And he also speaks even in the pain.
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  Speaker 2: There is a message that God communicates in suffering itself.
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  Speaker 2: Most people who have gone through deep suffering have a
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  Speaker 2: knowledge and a wisdom others of us lack.
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  Speaker 1: Why? Because they learned on the bed of affliction. And
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  Speaker 1: then how do we get the message from God to us?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Elihu suggests, look closely, verse 23, there is an
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  Speaker 2: angel as mediator for man. One out of a thousand.
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  Speaker 2: I think you may have never seen this before. I confess,
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember ever reading this before.
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  Speaker 1: They're rare. One in a thousand, we would say.
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  Speaker 2: To remind a man what is right for him Let
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  Speaker 2: him be gracious to him and say, deliver him from
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  Speaker 2: going down to the pit.
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  Speaker 1: And he delivers him from death.
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  Speaker 2: Let his flesh, verse 25, become fresher than in youth.
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  Speaker 1: Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor.
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  Speaker 2: And he will pray to God and he will accept him.
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  Speaker 2: Capital H, God will accept him and he may see
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  Speaker 2: his face with joy, may restore his righteousness to man.
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  Speaker 2: Let me pause here and let you look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Let your mind turn over what we just read. Now, admittedly,
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  Speaker 2: this may be Elihu's opinion, but.
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  Speaker 1: It is inspired. It comes from the Spirit of God,
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  Speaker 1: and it's preserved for us in the sacred text. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we have now the.
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit who takes the Word of God and reveals
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  Speaker 2: truth to us from the Scriptures. But in those days,
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  Speaker 2: before the Bible was complete, God gave His message through
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  Speaker 2: dreams and visions. And He He spoke in the midst
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  Speaker 2: of the pain with mediating angels, communicating. And Job, God's
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  Speaker 2: speaking to you in this. Are you hearing what he
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  Speaker 2: has to say? Interestingly, Job doesn't answer. The second speech
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  Speaker 2: begins in chapter 34. Elihu is pleading for his audience.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's seeing Job drift a little. Kind of like Eutychus.
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  Speaker 2: Hear my words, you wise men. Verse 2. Listen to me,
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  Speaker 2: you who know, for the ear tests words as the
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  Speaker 2: palate tastes food. He says it again in verse 16.
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  Speaker 2: If you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the sound
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  Speaker 2: of my words. Now he speaks only to Job until
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  Speaker 2: he gets to verse 33.
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  Speaker 1: Then he waits. It's like a pause.
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  Speaker 2: In 34, 33, if you'll turn there, shall he recompense
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  Speaker 2: on your terms because you have rejected it? For you
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  Speaker 2: must choose and not I. Therefore, declare what you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he waits.
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  Speaker 2: And Job doesn't speak. Job doesn't even answer Elihu here.
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  Speaker 2: So Elihu gets a little ticked. And he ends with
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  Speaker 2: a rather strong and firm word regarding repentance. And he
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  Speaker 2: now takes up the cause of the other counselors who
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  Speaker 2: were blaming Job at every turn. And that continues through
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  Speaker 2: chapter 35. In fact, Elihu ends by insulting Job at
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  Speaker 2: the end of chapter 35, which is this third speech
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  Speaker 2: you may recall in our outline. At the end of it,
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  Speaker 2: he sort of levels Job. Verse 13 of chapter 35,
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  Speaker 2: surely God will not listen to an empty cry, implying
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  Speaker 2: Job's cries are empty, nor will the Almighty regard it.
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  Speaker 2: How much less when you say you do not behold him.
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  Speaker 2: The case is before him. You must wait for him.
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  Speaker 2: You hear the preaching? And now because he has not
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  Speaker 2: visited in his anger, nor has he acknowledged transgression well,
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  Speaker 2: so Job opens his mouth emptily. He multiplies words without knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: That's really insulting to say.
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  Speaker 1: It like that.
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  Speaker 2: Eugene Peterson gets the idea when he paraphrases, Job, you
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  Speaker 2: talk sheer nonsense, nonstop nonsense. That's the way he ends.
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  Speaker 2: And then he goes to his fourth message. And Job
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  Speaker 2: patiently waits for him to finish.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: When you get toward the end of Elihu's speech, he
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  Speaker 2: gets back on target. In fact, chapter 36 and into 37,
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  Speaker 2: he covers four bases.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to them. They all make sense.
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  Speaker 2: First, God watches over the righteous. If the righteous commit
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  Speaker 2: a transgression, he lets them know they've done wrong. If
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  Speaker 2: they respond to the rod of discipline, he restores them.
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  Speaker 2: If they don't, they suffer the consequences. That's awfully good theology.
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  Speaker 2: One man suggests that chapter 36 is the best theology
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  Speaker 2: in the book of Job thus far. And he may
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  Speaker 2: very well be right. Now, what I love is how
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  Speaker 2: he ends it. Sometimes as a sermon ends, it reaches
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  Speaker 2: its best point, doesn't it? He comes toward the end
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  Speaker 2: and he begins to introduce Job to the way God
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  Speaker 2: reveals himself. By the way, what do you think of
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  Speaker 2: when you think of God? What an intriguing kind of question.
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  Speaker 2: What's in your mind? Elihu helps Job grasp a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good understanding of the living God. He even says he
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  Speaker 2: trembles when he thinks of him. Chapter 37, verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: At this, my heart trembles and leaps from its place.
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  Speaker 2: Listen closely to the thunder of his voice and the
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  Speaker 2: rumbling that goes out.
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  Speaker 1: From his mouth. He's beginning to picture God in this thunderstorm.
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  Speaker 2: Under the whole heaven, he lets it loose and his
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  Speaker 2: lightning to the ends of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: After it, a voice roars.
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  Speaker 2: He thunders with his majestic voice and he does not
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  Speaker 2: restrain the light when his.
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  Speaker 1: Voice is heard.
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  Speaker 2: God thunders with his voice, wondrously doing great things which
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  Speaker 2: we cannot comprehend. Now you're talking, Elihu. Now you're on
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  Speaker 2: to something. God reveals himself. God shows himself strong. God
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  Speaker 2: presents himself in ways that are overwhelming to us.
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  Speaker 1: Overwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike the little girl walking beside her mother in a
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  Speaker 2: pretty big thunderstorm, and every time the lightning flashed, she
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  Speaker 2: turned and smiled, and then walked a little further than lightning,
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  Speaker 2: and she turned. The mother said, sweetheart, why do you
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  Speaker 2: always turn and look at the She said, well, God's
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  Speaker 2: taking my picture.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to smile for him. He said, he's not.
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  Speaker 1: He's not. It's not about us. It's not about us.
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  Speaker 2: It's about himself in his magnificence. Nahum writes of it.
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  Speaker 2: He has his way in the whirlwind and the storms
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  Speaker 2: and the clouds or the dust of his feet.
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  Speaker 1: He is transcendent. He is magnificent. He is mighty. He
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  Speaker 1: is gigantic. He is mighty. Everything about us, above us,
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  Speaker 1: around us, and within us.
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  Speaker 2: Without him, there is no righteousness. There is no holiness.
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  Speaker 2: There is no ability to change. There is no truth.
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  Speaker 2: God authors it all. And Elihu comes to this in
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  Speaker 2: the simple form of the thunderstorm.
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  Speaker 1: And he shows Job... of the living.
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  Speaker 2: God and he begs him to listen to this chapter
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  Speaker 2: 37 verse 14. Listen Job, stand and consider the wonders
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  Speaker 2: of God. Do you know how God establishes them and
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  Speaker 2: makes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
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  Speaker 1: Of course he doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how God establishes them and makes the
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  Speaker 2: lightning of his cloud to shine? Do you know about
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  Speaker 2: the layers of the thick clouds and the wonders of
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  Speaker 2: one perfect in knowledge?
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  Speaker 1: Describes it all as a.
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  Speaker 2: Canopy in a few moments and And this, I love
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  Speaker 2: that 22, out of the north comes golden splendor around God.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome majesty. Is that magnificent? Nothing around us is
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  Speaker 1: awesome or majestic. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen nothing that can be compared to the living God.
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  Speaker 1: We sing of it.
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  Speaker 2: O tell of his might, O sing of his grace,
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  Speaker 2: whose robe is the light, whose canopy is space. His
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  Speaker 2: chariots of wrath, the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is
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  Speaker 2: his path on the wings of a storm. Thy bountiful care,
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  Speaker 2: what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it
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  Speaker 2: shines in the night. It streams from the hills, it
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  Speaker 2: descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew
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  Speaker 2: and the rain. Great words from O Worship the King.
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  Speaker 1: He is great. He is mighty. And we sit in
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  Speaker 1: awe and we worship Job. Job, join me as we worship.
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  Speaker 2: Not surprisingly, when God does finally speak 38.1, he answers
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  Speaker 2: Job out of all.
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  Speaker 1: There he is. Wouldn't that have been great to be there? Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Don't talk. Don't talk. Don't say a word. Just stare.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes God bursts on the scenes in such a magnificent way,
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  Speaker 2: your breath is taken away. I was fishing with my
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  Speaker 2: father many years ago, sitting on a slick in the
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  Speaker 2: Cronkoway Bay.
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  Speaker 1: Just this side of Matagorda Bay.
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  Speaker 2: We were sitting in a probably 14-foot fishing boat my
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  Speaker 2: granddad owned.
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  Speaker 1: My dad was in the back by the motor, and
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  Speaker 1: I was up front.
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  Speaker 2: And it was one of those days you could flip
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  Speaker 2: a penny, and it would hit the water, and you
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  Speaker 2: could just.
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  Speaker 1: Count the ripples. I mean, it was slick. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just about daybreak. All of a sudden, from the depths
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  Speaker 1: came a tarpon. Out of the water, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could jump up above this pulpit to do
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  Speaker 1: that for you, but I can't anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting there watching this fish come out of the water.
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  Speaker 2: My dad, he didn't even turn around. He says, I
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  Speaker 2: told you the big ones were down there. So I
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  Speaker 2: cast on as if I'm going to land that mother.
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  Speaker 1: Of all fish. Out of nowhere, this suddenly appears. And
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  Speaker 1: so does our God. Job, Job, listen. He's here. He
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  Speaker 1: isn't silent. He speaks. And there's no voice like his.
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  Speaker 2: Robert Dick Wilson was the professor of Old Testament and
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  Speaker 2: Semitics from 1900 to 1929 at the great old Princeton Seminary,
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  Speaker 2: back when it was straight, back in the days when
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  Speaker 2: its theology was evangelical. And serving on that same faculty
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  Speaker 2: had been B.B. Warfield and J. Gratia Machen, great names.
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  Speaker 2: Machen later left and began Westminster Seminary in.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Dick Wilson left with him. They formed a new school.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, from 1915 to 1917, Donald Gray Barnhouse was
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  Speaker 2: a student.
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  Speaker 1: At Princeton Seminary.
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  Speaker 2: Barnhouse later went on to 10th Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: to serve as a pastor for 33 years. But before then,
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  Speaker 2: after graduating, about 12 years passed, And they invited Barnhouse
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  Speaker 2: to come back to the seminary and to preach in
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  Speaker 2: Miller Chapel. And Barnhouse loves to tell the story of
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  Speaker 2: just before he got up to preach, Robert Dick Wilson
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  Speaker 2: walked in, came all the way down near the front
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  Speaker 2: and sat right down close. And I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: from experience similar to that when I preach in the
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  Speaker 2: seminary chapel in Dallas and I'm surrounded by those who
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  Speaker 2: taught me theology and the languages and whatever, it's pretty intimidating.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do a lot of self-talk to get
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  Speaker 2: over it. And I'm sure that's what Barnhouse went through
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  Speaker 2: when he saw his old prof, Dr. Robert Dick Wilson.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant mind, great man. Barnhouse said when he finished his message,
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  Speaker 2: Wilson walked up to him and said, shook his hand, said,
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  Speaker 2: if you come back, I will not come hear you preach.
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  Speaker 2: I only come once to hear my voice. And I
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  Speaker 2: come only to see if they are big godders or
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  Speaker 2: little godders. Not sure that he understood what Dr. Wilson
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  Speaker 2: meant by that, Barnhouse asked for an explanation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he said it's very simple.
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  Speaker 2: Some men have only a little god, and they are
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  Speaker 2: always in trouble with him. He can't do the miraculous.
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  Speaker 2: He can't take care of life's details. He doesn't intervene
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of his people. They have a little God,
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  Speaker 2: and so I call them little Godders. Then there are
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  Speaker 2: those who have a great and mighty God.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get it.
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  Speaker 2: He speaks, and it is done. He commands, and it
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  Speaker 2: stands fast. He knows how to show himself strong on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of those who fear him. Barnhouse, anxious to know
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  Speaker 2: in which category he was, breathed a sigh of relief
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  Speaker 2: when he heard the man's final statement. You, Donald, have
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  Speaker 2: a great God.
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  Speaker 1: And he will bless your ministry.
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  Speaker 2: He paused, looked deeply into the eyes of the young preacher,
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  Speaker 2: smiled and said, just before he turned to walk.
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  Speaker 1: Out, God bless you. Donald, God bless you. How big
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  Speaker 1: is your God?
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  Speaker 2: Big enough to intervene? Big enough to be held in
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  Speaker 2: awe and ultimate respect and trust? Big enough to turn
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  Speaker 2: your worries into fodder so that he can put it
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  Speaker 2: all in perspective?
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  Speaker 1: Little Godders, big Godders.
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  Speaker 2: When God is too small in our minds, our problems
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  Speaker 2: are magnified and we retreat in fear and insecurity.
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  Speaker 1: Job was not one of those.
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  Speaker 2: When God becomes great in our minds, our problems pale
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  Speaker 2: into insignificance and we stand in awe.
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  Speaker 1: And we worship the King. Ours is a great God.
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  Speaker 1: Great and mighty is our God. Will you bow with me, please,
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  Speaker 1: before him?
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  Speaker 2: The words are many used for him, transcendent, inscrutable, incomprehensible, magnificent, all-knowing, all-powerful, omnipresent, holy, just, good, gracious,
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  Speaker 2: don't forget, mysterious, incomprehensible, self-sustaining. He doesn't come to our
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  Speaker 2: rescue because he needs us. He comes because we need him.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't speak because he thinks he needs to be heard.
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  Speaker 2: He speaks because he knows without his voice, without his message,
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  Speaker 2: without his word, we are in a morass.
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  Speaker 1: Of trouble and misery and worry.
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  Speaker 2: If you've never met the Lord Jesus Christ, you need
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  Speaker 2: to understand that That's essential if you wish to know
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  Speaker 2: a God this size. Jesus alone said, I am the way,
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  Speaker 2: the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
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  Speaker 2: Father but through me. He's the only road to take.
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  Speaker 1: To God. It's one way. His way. We worship you.
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  Speaker 1: Our great and mighty God. This day. The one who
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  Speaker 1: transcends time. And space.
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  Speaker 2: The one beyond our comprehension. Full of a grace that
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  Speaker 2: is not in us. A goodness we have never known
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  Speaker 2: in ourselves. Mercy and love. that knows no limit, almighty, magnificent, victorious, sovereign, holy, just.
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  Speaker 2: In a day of many voices, all of them loud,
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  Speaker 2: much noise, enormous confusion and chaos, bring us often to
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  Speaker 2: the simple truth that you love us and your plan
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  Speaker 2: is best and your motive is right and it is
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  Speaker 2: for your glory and therefore for our good. Deliver us
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  Speaker 2: from every pursuit of our own selfish happiness, a desire
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  Speaker 2: to please what we want and to find our satisfaction
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  Speaker 2: in you, great God.
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  Speaker 1: Whom have we, Lord, but thee?
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  Speaker 2: Soul thirst to satisfy. Exhaustless spring, the waters free. All
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  Speaker 2: other streams are dry. And so we worship you, our God.
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  Speaker 2: We have done so with our songs. We have done
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  Speaker 2: so in the reading of the word. We have done
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  Speaker 2: so in our giving. We have now done so in
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  Speaker 2: our silence before you. minister and continue ministering, even when
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  Speaker 2: we're away from each other, but not at all away
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  Speaker 2: from you. Unto him who is able to guard us
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  Speaker 2: from stumbling and present us faultless, faultless, before the presence
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  Speaker 2: of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God,
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  Speaker 2: our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power now
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  Speaker 2: and forever and ever and ever and ever. And all
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  Speaker 2: God's people said, Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Great and mighty is our God. When we see him accurately, transcendent, magnificent,
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  Speaker 3: sovereign over every storm, our worries fade into proper perspective,
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  Speaker 3: and worship rises in their place. May that vision of
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  Speaker 3: God stay with you long after today's Insight for Living.
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  Speaker 3: He's bigger than anything you are facing. Over the last
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  Speaker 3: several weeks, Chuck has been walking us through the Old
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  Speaker 3: Testament book of Job. It's a shocking portrayal of human suffering.
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  Speaker 3: If you're ready to learn more about Job's story, or
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  Speaker 3: if you're looking for a creative way to guide your
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  Speaker 3: small group Bible study and lively discussion, we invite you
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  Speaker 3: to request the Searching the Scriptures Bible Study Workbook for
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  Speaker 3: this series. It's called Job, A Man of Heroic Endurance.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, this Bible study is part of a bundle
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  Speaker 3: of resources. The collection includes 22 sermons on CD. It
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  Speaker 3: contains the full message you heard today. Plus, the bundle
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  Speaker 3: includes Chuck Swindoll's full-length biography of Job. In his book,
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  Speaker 3: more than 300 pages in length, you'll read Chuck's meticulous
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  Speaker 3: expose of Job's story. Along the way, Chuck infuses practical
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  Speaker 3: application that equips you to deal with adversity of any kind.
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  Speaker 3: Three powerful resources, the spiral-bound Bible study workbook, the full
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  Speaker 3: collection of sermons from Chuck, and his comprehensive biography of Job,
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  Speaker 3: a man of heroic endurance. You can find all the
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  Speaker 3: details at insight.org slash offer or call us at 800-772-8888. Finally,
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  Speaker 3: I want to point you to an exciting online resource.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Swindoll recently sat down with Dave Ramsey for a
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  Speaker 3: candid conversation about money, legacy, and holding it all loosely.
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  Speaker 3: The two men go farther back than most of us realize.
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  Speaker 3: Dave first encountered Chuck's Bible teaching decades ago through Insight
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  Speaker 3: for Living. To check out the entire interview between Chuck
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  Speaker 3: and Dave, stop by this webpage, insight.org slash conversations. That's insight.org
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  Speaker 3: slash conversations. I'm Bill Meyer. Join us when Chuck Swindoll
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  Speaker 3: describes the next twist in Job's surprising story, tomorrow on
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  Speaker 3: Insight for Living. The preceding message, another long-winded monologue, was
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  Speaker 3: was copyrighted in 2025 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All
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