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Finally . . . Justice Rolls Down, Part 1 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: There's something in all of us that longs to see
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  Speaker 1: wrong made right. We wait for the guilty to be
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  Speaker 1: held accountable, for the innocent to be vindicated, for the
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  Speaker 1: scales at long last to balance. But justice in this
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  Speaker 1: world so often seems slow in coming. Maybe you're waiting
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  Speaker 1: on God to settle the score. Have you wondered if
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  Speaker 1: he even knows? If he'll ever step in and set
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  Speaker 1: things straight? Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll arrives
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  Speaker 1: at the resolution of Job's long ordeals. And in Job's
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  Speaker 1: redemptive story, there's hope for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: We turn to the last chapter in the book of Job.
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  Speaker 2: If you will please, I'll begin reading at verse 5.
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  Speaker 3: I am undeterred in this process.
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  Speaker 2: Since I'm speaking on justice today, I think it's appropriate
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  Speaker 2: that I go on here. Job 42, verse 5. We
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  Speaker 2: will only have about five more Sundays in the book
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  Speaker 2: of Job.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'll come to the end of the book
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Job 42.5, I have heard of you by the hearing
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  Speaker 2: of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Therefore
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  Speaker 2: I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes. It
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  Speaker 2: came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is
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  Speaker 2: kindled against you and against your two friends, because you
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  Speaker 2: have not spoken of me what is right, as my
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  Speaker 2: servant Job has. Now, therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls
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  Speaker 2: and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and
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  Speaker 2: offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant
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  Speaker 2: Job will pray for you, for I will accept him
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  Speaker 2: so that I may not do with you according to
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  Speaker 2: your folly, because you have not spoken of me what
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  Speaker 2: is right, as my servant Job has. So Eliphaz the
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  Speaker 2: Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went
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  Speaker 2: and did as.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord told them. And the Lord accepted Job.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed
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  Speaker 2: for his friends. And the Lord increased all that Job
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  Speaker 2: had twofold.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 1: Job's story, be sure to purchase a copy of our
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled today's message, Finally, Justice Rolls Down.
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  Speaker 2: There is something wonderfully satisfying about justice. We love it
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  Speaker 2: when right is rewarded and when wrong is punished. No
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  Speaker 2: one is better at either than the living God who
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  Speaker 2: is all fair and all knowing. When his justice rolls down,
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  Speaker 2: it is always right. One of the reasons Christians love
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  Speaker 2: to learn about future things is a part of the
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  Speaker 2: future things deals with rewards that are promised God's people.
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  Speaker 2: Those rewards are sometimes specified for us in prophetic books
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  Speaker 2: of the Bible. For example, there are crowns that are
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  Speaker 2: promised the faithful. Not just one or two, but there
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  Speaker 2: are five specific crowns, and they make quite a study
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  Speaker 2: when you go into the New Testament and and learn
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  Speaker 2: of the rewards that God has for his own people
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  Speaker 2: as we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, which
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  Speaker 2: is set forth in the third chapter.
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  Speaker 3: Of 1 Corinthians.
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  Speaker 2: You may remember singing as a child that little gospel song,
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  Speaker 2: Will there be any stars, any stars in my crown,
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  Speaker 2: when at evening the sun goes down? Actually, the lyrics
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  Speaker 2: are fanciful because the Bible never says, promises stars in
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  Speaker 2: one's crown, but it does promise crowns. And there's something
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  Speaker 2: wonderfully satisfying about knowing that individuals who may have been
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  Speaker 2: ignored or even worse, mistreated, sometimes martyred for their faith,
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  Speaker 2: that they will not be forgotten, that justice will roll down.
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  Speaker 3: They will be rewarded. God will not forget. or overlook them.
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  Speaker 3: Justice has a flip side as well.
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  Speaker 2: Those who do wrong will suffer the consequences for the wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And there's something inside all of us that finds a
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  Speaker 2: satisfying relief when we hear that wrong was dealt with.
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  Speaker 2: We even have the phrase brought to justice. A close
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  Speaker 2: to home illustration comes to mind. Three weeks in October
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  Speaker 2: of 2002, a sniper was on the loose in the
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  Speaker 2: mid-Atlantic states. There's hardly a person hearing me right now
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  Speaker 2: who has not followed the story of the mass murders.
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  Speaker 3: Ten of them, as people.
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  Speaker 2: Were cowardly and brutally shot at random, coming out of
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  Speaker 2: malls or getting into their cars or pumping gas or.
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  Speaker 3: Getting off of a bus.
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  Speaker 2: From somewhere, someone had the audacity to kill in cold blood.
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia and I have a friend who lives about a
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  Speaker 2: mile from where the first shot rang out. He's a
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  Speaker 2: federal judge. And he said to me just this past
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  Speaker 2: week when we talked about it that there was a
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  Speaker 2: sense of terror That stretched across those communities. As they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't find the killer.
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  Speaker 3: Or killers.
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  Speaker 2: And then it seems they've been found. And if they
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  Speaker 2: are in fact the ones. They shot out of the
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  Speaker 2: trunk of their cars. Causing their deed to be all
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  Speaker 2: the more cowardly.
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  Speaker 3: And unfair.
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  Speaker 2: And something inside us is incensed by that.
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  Speaker 3: We live for the.
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  Speaker 2: Day that they will be brought to justice. And ideally
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  Speaker 2: that they will be killed for their deeds.
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  Speaker 3: So we wait. We're pleased that they've been captured.
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  Speaker 2: And we're grateful that justice.
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  Speaker 3: Has rolled down yet again. Or it soon will.
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  Speaker 2: I came across a very interesting statement in the little
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  Speaker 2: book of Amos just this week. Amos, just before the
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  Speaker 2: book of Obadiah, or just after Joel. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to find. Let me just cut to the chase.
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  Speaker 2: It's page 1409 in my Bible, maybe not in yours.
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  Speaker 2: It's over in the minor prophets, and you've probably not
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  Speaker 2: turned to Amos in maybe ever in your life, but
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  Speaker 2: Right in the middle of the book, this prophet who
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  Speaker 2: was making the indifferent rather uncomfortable with his prophecy represents
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  Speaker 2: the words of the Lord when he says, 521, I hate,
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  Speaker 2: I reject your festivals, nor do I delight in your
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  Speaker 2: solemn assemblies. Even though you offer up to me burnt
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  Speaker 2: offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them.
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  Speaker 2: He's quoting the Lord. I will not even look at
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  Speaker 2: the peace offerings of your fatlings. Take away from me
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  Speaker 2: the noise of your songs. I will not even listen
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  Speaker 2: to the sound of the harps. Let justice roll down.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you like the way that reads? Let it roll
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  Speaker 2: down like water and then in good Hebrew poetic fashion,
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  Speaker 2: the statement follows that intensifies it.
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  Speaker 3: Let righteousness, like an.
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  Speaker 2: Ever-flowing stream, roll down. It's been a long time coming,
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  Speaker 2: says the Lord, but remember, I am just, as one
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  Speaker 2: man wrote, the mills of God grind slowly, yet they
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  Speaker 2: grind exceedingly small. Another in our day put it this way,
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  Speaker 2: all God's accounts are not settled at the end of
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  Speaker 2: every month. Eugene Peterson in The Message renders this passage
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  Speaker 2: in words that probably will seem a little more current
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  Speaker 2: to you and me. I can't stand your religious meetings.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans
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  Speaker 2: and goals. I'm sick of your fundraising schemes, your public
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  Speaker 2: relations and image-making.
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  Speaker 3: I've had all I can.
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  Speaker 2: Take of your noisy ego music. When was the last
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  Speaker 2: time you sang to me?
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I want justice, oceans of it. I want fairness, rivers
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  Speaker 2: of it. That's what I want. That's all I want.
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  Speaker 2: You're hearing justice in these words of passion. God ultimately
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  Speaker 2: brings people into account. You know, the problem is that
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  Speaker 2: he's often so slow in doing it. I heard of
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  Speaker 2: one of the Puritan prayers, very brief for a change
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  Speaker 2: for a Puritan.
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  Speaker 3: And he simply said, oh Lord, hurry up.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you say that sometimes? This wrong has been going
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  Speaker 2: on long enough. Hurry up, God. Or when will he
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  Speaker 2: ever step in and deal with whatever? Or reward these people?
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  Speaker 2: Why do we say that? Because we want justice.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: It's how he made us. We are like God. When
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  Speaker 2: in our righteous walk, we long for justice.
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  Speaker 3: He's pleased with justice and equity and fairness.
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  Speaker 2: I am pleased to tell you that in the story
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  Speaker 2: of Job, justice finally rolls down.
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  Speaker 3: This man who.
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  Speaker 2: Did not deserve the boils that covered his skin or
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  Speaker 2: the loss of his business and home and family and
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  Speaker 2: happiness ultimately gets them back and gets them back in
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  Speaker 2: multiplied fashion, as we're going to learn. And those who
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  Speaker 2: made his life even more miserable hear from the Lord
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  Speaker 2: about that too. He does not overlook either. Our faithful
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  Speaker 2: God rewards the righteous, and he also disciplines the unrighteous.
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  Speaker 2: Back in Job 42, we were forced to move along
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  Speaker 2: rather quickly in our last message, and we finished before
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  Speaker 2: I was through. That happens somewhat regularly. And I want
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  Speaker 2: to go back briefly and pull from it some lessons
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  Speaker 2: that I don't want you to miss because I think
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  Speaker 2: they will help us in the living of our lives
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  Speaker 2: as Job finally sees it through a couple of interesting
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  Speaker 2: illustrations You remember the hippopotamus and the crocodile? Remember those
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  Speaker 2: strange examples the Lord uses in chapters 40 and 41? Finally,
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  Speaker 2: it dawns on Job what the Lord is getting at.
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  Speaker 2: That his plan is profound. That his reasoning is right.
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  Speaker 2: That his ways are higher than we can ever understand.
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  Speaker 2: And Job waves the flag of surrender and says, I
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  Speaker 2: back away. I retract and I repent. I said things
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have been saying. I spoke about things I
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  Speaker 2: knew nothing about. And Lord, please know my heart is yours.
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  Speaker 2: And I place myself at your disposal. When you get
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  Speaker 2: to chapter 42, those are Job's words in verses.
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  Speaker 3: Two through six.
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  Speaker 2: And I pulled from these verses four lessons that I
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  Speaker 2: want you to remember. And they go with us toward
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  Speaker 2: the end of the story. Job says, verse 2, I know,
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  Speaker 2: he's speaking to the Lord, I know that you can
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  Speaker 2: do all things and that no purpose of yours can
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  Speaker 2: be thwarted.
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  Speaker 3: You can do all.
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  Speaker 2: Things and no one can hold you back. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: lesson I learned from that. God's purpose is unfolding and
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  Speaker 2: I cannot hinder it. Some of you need to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: I do not know the details of your circumstances, but
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  Speaker 2: surely in a group this large, there must be some
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  Speaker 2: pretty tough situations. There are some pretty severe needs. And
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  Speaker 2: you may begin to wonder if this is getting out
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  Speaker 2: of control and God really is absent. Remember the principle.
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  Speaker 2: God's purpose is unfolding, mysterious as it may seem, and
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  Speaker 2: I cannot hinder it. You will discover before I'm through
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  Speaker 2: with these four that the whole focus is on the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: It's not on life. It is on the Lord. It's
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  Speaker 2: not on others. It is on the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: It is not on the difficulties. It is on the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Now the second comment Job makes is in verse 3.
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  Speaker 2: Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Sort of
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  Speaker 2: a self-confession there. Therefore I have declared that which I
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  Speaker 2: did not understand. I would render the next things too
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  Speaker 2: deep for me, which I did not know. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: second thought. God's plan is incredible, and I will not
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  Speaker 2: comprehend it. I hope after the study of Job that
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  Speaker 2: you make a point in your life of reminding yourself regularly,
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  Speaker 2: things are happening that I cannot hinder. Things are happening
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  Speaker 2: I will never comprehend. If you will tell yourself that enough,
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  Speaker 2: you will find a peace you've never known before. The
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  Speaker 2: lack of peace comes when we try to make sense
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  Speaker 2: out of everything that is occurring and try to make
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  Speaker 2: it fit our human logic. And we forget his ways
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  Speaker 2: are higher than our ways. His plan is deeper. His
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  Speaker 2: purposes are far more profound. We cannot hinder them and
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  Speaker 2: we will not comprehend them.
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  Speaker 3: Let it rest. Let it be. It's okay. You don't
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  Speaker 3: have to know to have peace. You have to trust
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  Speaker 3: to have peace.
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  Speaker 2: Now the third principle is in verses 4 and 5.
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  Speaker 2: Hear now and I will speak. I will ask you
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  Speaker 2: and you instruct me. He's talking to the Lord. I
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  Speaker 2: will ask you, Lord, and you, Lord, instruct me. I've
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  Speaker 2: heard of you by the hearing of the ear. Now
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  Speaker 2: my eye sees you. Third principle. God's instruction is reliable.
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  Speaker 2: I dare not ignore it. God's instruction is reliable. I
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  Speaker 2: dare not ignore it. I think I should warn every
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  Speaker 2: one of you that because you place yourself under the
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  Speaker 2: teaching of the word of God, as I.
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  Speaker 3: Do, we are accountable.
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  Speaker 2: When you hear principles such as this, and then either
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  Speaker 2: ignore them or disobey them, there is a consequence that
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  Speaker 2: will follow. There's sadness in place of relief. There's a
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  Speaker 2: discouragement in place of a sense of fulfillment. His instruction
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  Speaker 2: is reliable, and therefore we dare not ignore it. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't just a religious exercise. This isn't just another way
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  Speaker 2: to spend a Sunday morning. This isn't just an empty
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  Speaker 2: pastime that we do out of habit. It is a
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  Speaker 2: time of allowing his truth to filter into our gray
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  Speaker 2: matter and impact us so that our attitudes and our
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  Speaker 2: actions and our words change.
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  Speaker 3: To fit his, to fit him. See him?
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  Speaker 2: You see Job, that's what he does in verse 6. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: since your purpose is unfolding, since your plan is incredible,
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  Speaker 2: since your instruction is reliable, I retract. I pull back
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  Speaker 2: from a number of the things that I said, things
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  Speaker 2: I used to believe. I repent in dust and ashes.
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  Speaker 2: This is saying to us, God's way is best. I
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  Speaker 2: must not resist it. God's way is best. I must
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  Speaker 2: not resist it.
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  Speaker 3: That did it.
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  Speaker 2: When the Lord heard Job's heart, as these words reveal
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  Speaker 2: his heart, when the Lord saw the humility and the
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  Speaker 2: openness and the teachability of Job, mercy kicked in and grace,
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  Speaker 2: grace flowed down. In fact, the Lord decides to use
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  Speaker 2: Job in the process of restoring these friends who have
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  Speaker 2: gotten so far off track.
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  Speaker 3: That's another point.
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  Speaker 2: You will be amazed at how the Lord will use
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  Speaker 2: you in others' lives when you adjust your ways to
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  Speaker 2: His ways. You will be for them a refuge, a
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  Speaker 2: point of hope, a reason to go on, a source
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  Speaker 2: of strength, a calming presence. You will be that and
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  Speaker 2: so much more to those who lack the things that
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  Speaker 2: you now possess by His grace. So the Lord hears
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  Speaker 2: His servants say that and He then turns His attention
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  Speaker 2: to the three friends. Before we go to this section,
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't mention Elihu by name, probably because Elihu, the
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  Speaker 2: last of the friends, was more right than the others,
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  Speaker 2: probably was more on target, though his heart needed a
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  Speaker 2: little adjustment at times, and his pride needed to come
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  Speaker 2: down a few notches. He was not guilty as Eliphaz
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  Speaker 2: and Bildad and Zophar were, and that's why the Lord
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  Speaker 2: addresses them directly. Before I go there, let me give
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  Speaker 2: you a statement. Life is all about our God. Life
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  Speaker 2: is all about our God. Will you say that with me?
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  Speaker 2: Life is all about our God. If you, sounds simple,
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  Speaker 2: maybe sounds silly, but if you will repeat that every
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  Speaker 2: morning when you get up, it'll make a difference in
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  Speaker 2: your day. Because from the earliest years, we think life
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  Speaker 2: is about us.
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  Speaker 3: My comfort, my space.
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  Speaker 2: My rights, my will, my career, my salary, my plans,
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  Speaker 2: my health.
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  Speaker 3: Life is not about that. It is about our God.
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  Speaker 2: And as He works His way and will and purposes
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  Speaker 2: through us, it is.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing when we get on.
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  Speaker 2: Track how absolutely delightful more of life can be. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying you will be free of any trials.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 2: Difficulties will leave you by the tons and you'll never
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  Speaker 2: know what it is to be depressed or discouraged. That's
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  Speaker 2: not what I'm saying. You're only human. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: the way you've been living will not be the way
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  Speaker 2: you will live when you focus on the fact that
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  Speaker 2: life is all about your God. Job sees it. These
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  Speaker 2: other men don't. They're standing in the background frowning with
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  Speaker 2: their arms folded, wondering why the lightning isn't striking Job
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord isn't vindicating them for what they said.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, are they in for a surprise.
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  Speaker 2: It came about after the Lord had spoken these words
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  Speaker 2: to Job, verse 7, that the Lord said to Eliphaz
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  Speaker 2: the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and against
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  Speaker 2: your two friends.
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  Speaker 3: Stop. I know you want to go on, but stop.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I love it that the Lord says, you made me angry.
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  Speaker 2: Your words were wrong words. Your actions were wrong actions.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a wrath that is kindled over what
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  Speaker 2: you have been doing. You know why I love it?
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  Speaker 2: Because I was reared in a world that taught Christians
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  Speaker 2: should never be angry. If you are angry, you are sinful.
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  Speaker 2: And you need to confess it, that you got mad.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit more complicated than that, honestly. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if the Lord can show a wrath that is kindled,
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  Speaker 2: surely there's a place for anger. The Lord Jesus driving
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  Speaker 2: those people who were desecrating the temple out of the
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  Speaker 2: temple as he plaited together those leather shoes. thongs and
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  Speaker 2: made them into a whip and drove them out. You
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  Speaker 2: can't tell me, he said, now gentlemen, I'm a little
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  Speaker 2: uneasy about what I'm seeing here. When you have time,
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  Speaker 2: would you clean up the mess and be on your way?
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  Speaker 3: He drove them out of the temple. I would love
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  Speaker 3: to see a picture of that.
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  Speaker 2: Got his sleeves rolled up and he is swinging that
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  Speaker 2: whip and I think that is fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Those Pharisees saw him coming toward him. It was like
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  Speaker 3: What is this?
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  Speaker 2: But he's never done a sin in his entire existence,
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  Speaker 2: so it couldn't have been sinful. It was a righteous indignation.
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  Speaker 2: Something's wrong if you don't get mad over that. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord God says, it's not a temper tantrum here. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a sudden overreaction as he pitches a fit.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, this has been a long time coming. He's been
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  Speaker 3: standing back, waiting and waiting forever.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, he reaches the limit of his tether. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about an out-of-control rage. I'm talking about a
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  Speaker 2: justifiable anger that comes from the heart of one who
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  Speaker 2: is holy in God's case.
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  Speaker 1: Righteous anger from the heart of a holy God. It's
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  Speaker 1: a side of the Lord we don't often pause to consider.
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  Speaker 1: He's patient, slow to anger, waiting and waiting. But He's
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  Speaker 1: also just, and He won't let wrong stand forever. There's
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  Speaker 1: more to this story that Chuck Swindoll wants to show us,
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  Speaker 1: so keep listening to Insight for Living. Chuck titled this message, Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Justice Rolls Down. The Old Testament book of Job provides
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  Speaker 1: a shocking picture of human suffering. Many of the images
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  Speaker 1: are pitiful and frankly seem so unfair. But that's the
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  Speaker 1: way life is, right? Sometimes it feels like nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than an endless sequence of unwanted surprises. And yet, even still,
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  Speaker 1: Job deliberately chose triumph over tragedy. We encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: get better acquainted with Job using the practical Bible study
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  Speaker 1: resources that Insight for Living offers. For instance, we invite
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  Speaker 1: for this series. It's called Job, a Man of Heroic Endurance.
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  Speaker 1: This spiral-bound workbook is part of a bundle of resources.
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  Speaker 1: The collection includes 22 sermons on CD. Plus, the bundle
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  Speaker 1: includes Chuck Swindoll's full-length biography of Job. In his book,
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  Speaker 1: more than 300 pages in length, you'll read Chuck's meticulous
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  Speaker 1: expose of Job's story. Along the way, Chuck infuses practical
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  Speaker 1: application that equips you to deal with adversity of any kind.
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  Speaker 1: Three powerful resources, the spiral-bound Bible study workbook, the full
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  Speaker 1: collection of sermons from Chuck, and his comprehensive biography of Job,
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  Speaker 1: a man of heroic endurance. You can find all the
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  Speaker 1: details at insight.org slash offer or call us at 800-772-8888. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: here's something that will interest you. Chuck Swindoll recently sat
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  Speaker 1: down with actor and producer Kirk Cameron. During their conversation,
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  Speaker 1: Kirk talked about his transformation in Christ, which happened through
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  Speaker 1: Chuck's preaching. To hear and see the entire interview between
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  Speaker 1: Chuck and Kirk, stop by insight.org slash conversation. Are you
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  Speaker 1: waiting on God to make things right? I'm Bill Meyer.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindoll tells a redemptive story of divine justice tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: on Insight for Living. The preceding message, Finally Justice Rolls Down,
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